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          [Housing and Community Affairs Committee on July 19, 2022.]
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          A PRESENTATION, A SE, A SERIES OF PRESENTATIONS FROM THE HOUSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT WILL PRESENT ON PUBLIC SERVICES, OUR HARVEY SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 
          UM, AND WE WILL ALSO HEAR FROM, UM, OUR DIRECTOR REGARDING COMMENTS. 
          AND MARK EICHENBAUM, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE MAYOR, UM, FOR A SPECIAL UPDATE ON HOUSTON'S HOMELESS RESPONSE EFFORTS. 
          SO, GOOD MORNING TO EVERYONE. 
          DIRECTOR, WELCOME. 
          IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. 
          GOOD MORNING, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UH, MADAM CHAIR FOR ALLOWING US TO BE HERE THIS MORNING. 
          WE'LL GET STARTED WITH OUR PUBLIC SERVICE PRESENTATION. 
          WE HAVE TWO ITEMS AND PRESENTING ON, UH, WE HAVE THREE ITEMS ON BEHALF OF, UH, OUR PUBLIC SERVICE AREA. 
          MELANIE BARR, DEPUTY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, WILL PRE DO THAT PRESENTATION. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          ITEM TWO A, THE DEPARTMENT IS PRESENTING A SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENT WITH THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS TO PROVIDE UP TO $4,415,582 IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK. 
          GRANT CARES ACT FUNDING, COMMONLY REFERRED TO A-C-D-B-G-C-V FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OPERATION OF THE NAVIGATION CENTER. 
          LOCATED AT 29 0 3 JENSEN DRIVE, HOUSTON, TEXAS 7 7 0 2 6. 
          THE NAVIGATION CENTER WILL BE A CO-ED SECULAR LOW BARRIER AND AN A DA ACCESSIBLE FACILITY PROVIDING TEMPORARY SEMI-PRIVATE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR UP TO 100 INDIVIDUALS AT ANY GIVEN TIME WHO ARE ACTIVELY WORKING WITH CASE MANAGERS ON PLACEMENT AND HOUSING. 
          THE NAVIGATION CENTER WILL PROVIDE BRIDGE BEDS FOR 350 PERSONS ANNUALLY TO STAY DURING THE HOUSING PROCESS. 
          FOR REFERENCE, BRIDGING IS THE TIME FROM HOUSING ASSESSMENT TO PLACEMENT INTO PERMANENT HOUSING. 
          ADDITIONAL SERVICES THAT WILL BE PROVIDED TO RESIDENTS OF THE NAVIGATION CENTER INCLUDE TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM. 
          THREE MEALS A DAY, ONE-ON-ONE INTENSIVE CASE MANAGEMENT, JOB TRAINING CLASSES, LAUNDRY, HEALTHCARE, AND MORE OPERATIONS WILL INCLUDE 24 7 SECURITY AND ONSITE PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT. 
          POTENTIAL CLIENTS MUST BE REFERRED AND TRANSPORTED BY HOMELESS AGENCIES AND OR FIRST RESPONDERS. 
          THE NAVIGATION CENTER WILL FEATURE A HEALTH CLINIC OPERATED BY HARRIS HEALTH AND TWO COMMUNITY CLASSROOMS, WHICH WILL SERVE THE GREATER COMMUNITY WITH PRIVATE ENTRANCE FOR THE PUBLIC. 
          THIS AGREEMENT WILL BEGIN ON THE COUNTER SIGNATURE DATE AND RUN THROUGH JULY 31ST, 2023 WITH AN OPTION FOR RENEWAL. 
          THIS COMES OUT TO APPROXIMATELY $12,600 PER PERSON, OR A LITTLE OVER $1,000 PER MONTH. 
          THE COALITION HAS RECEIVED FUNDING FROM THE CITY SINCE 2012, WHICH INCLUDES A $3.5 MILLION OF THE ESG CV FUNDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE NAVIGATION CENTER IN FEBRUARY OF 2022. 
          TODAY WE HAVE MIKE NICHOLS, PRESIDENT AND CEO AND ROUSH, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF PROGRAM OPERATIONS. 
          AND JESSICA HAM, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC PLANNING AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS FROM THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS HERE IN THE AUDIENCE. 
          SHOULD THERE BE ANY QUESTIONS? I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS IN THE QUEUE FOR YOU, BUT I KNOW WHEN WE BRIEFED ON THIS ITEM, UH, A DIRECTOR SHARED, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR INFORMATION. 
          I HAD TWO PARTICULAR QUESTIONS, AND I'M SURE, UM, WHEN MR. EICHENBAUM COMES TO THE CHAMBERS, HE'LL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO ELABORATE ON THIS. 
          SO THE FOUR, UH, THE $4 MILLION, UM, IS THAT FOR TWO YEARS? YES, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          IT'S FOR TWO YEARS. 
          OKAY. 
          YES, NO OTHER QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ITEM TWO B, THE DEPARTMENT'S PRESENTING A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENT WITH AIDS FOUNDATION HOUSTON TO PROVIDE UP TO AN ADDITIONAL $1,018,618 AND 55 CENTS. 
          AN EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT CARES ACT FUNDING, ALSO REFERRED TO AS E-S-G-C-V, TO ADMINISTER AND OPERATE HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TO A MINIMUM OF 30 AND DUPLICATED INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. 
          THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE HOUSING THROUGH A SPONSORED LEASING PROGRAM. 
          ESSENTIALLY, A FH WILL BE THE LEASEHOLDER OR THE SPONSOR, AND THEN IN TURN, LEASE DIRECTLY TO THE CLIENT PARTICIPANT. 
          THIS PROJECT WILL OCCUR AT TWO LOCATIONS AND TARGET INDIVIDUALS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING LITERAL HOMELESSNESS WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE BE ABLE TO ENTER INTO THEIR OWN LEASE AGREEMENT. 
          THIS PROGRAM, IN ADDITION TO HOUSING, WILL PROVIDE WRAPAROUND SERVICES, INCLUDING CASE MANAGEMENT, MENTAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS AND SUPPORT AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING. 
          THE INITIAL AGREEMENT WAS NOT SELECTED THROUGH A 
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NOFA, BUT SELECTED BASED ON EXPERIENCE FOR THE SAME TYPE OF PROGRAMMING PARENT LEASING USING HOPWA FUNDS. 
          THIS PAST SPRING, THERE WAS A TRI-PARTY REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST OR AN REI CONDUCTED BY THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS HARRIS COUNTY AND THE CITY OF HOUSTON. 
          THROUGH THAT PROCESS AIDS FOUNDATION, HOUSTON WAS SELECTED TO RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL YEAR OF FUNDING TO CONTINUE THIS PROGRAM AS PART OF THE COMMUNITY-WIDE COVID HOUSING PROGRAM. 
          PHASE TWO. 
          THIS AGREEMENT WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE AS A PILOT AND RUN THROUGH AUGUST 31ST, 2023. 
          THIS COMES OUT TO APPROXIMATELY 36,600 PER PERSON, OR $3,300 A MONTH, A FOUNDATION AIDS FOUNDATION. 
          HOUSTON HAS BEGAN RECEIVING FUNDING THROUGH THE CITY OF HOUSTON SINCE 1994, AND TODAY WE HAVE CHARLESTON STOKER, DIRECTOR OF HOUSING FROM HAES FOUNDATION HOUSTON HERE IN THE AUDIENCE. 
          SHOULD THERE BE ANY QUESTIONS? NO QUESTION IN THE QUEUE. 
          AND I WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE COUNCIL MEMBER CARLOS CISNEROS. 
          SHE'S JOINING US ONLINE. 
          GREAT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ITEM, UH, TWO C. 
          THE DEPARTMENT IS PRESENTING A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE SEPARATE RECIPIENT AGREEMENT WITH SPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER TO PROVIDE UP TO AN ADDITIONAL $694,705 IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK. 
          GRANT CARES ACT FUNDING C-D-B-G-C-V TO ADMINISTER AND OPERATE RAPID REHOUSING CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO AN ADDITIONAL 150 HOUSEHOLDS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS. 
          THIS PROJECT PROVIDES A WRAPAROUND CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES WHILE THE ACTUAL RENT SUBSIDY IS PAID BY A SEPARATE ENTITY. 
          SIMILARLY TO THE PROJECT PREVIOUSLY PRESENTED, THE INITIAL AGREEMENT WAS NOT SELECTED THROUGH A NOFA, BUT SIMILARLY, BASED ON EXPERIENCE FOR THE SAME TYPE OF PROGRAMMING. 
          THIS PAST SPRING, THERE WAS A TRI-PARTY REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST, REI CONDUCTED BY AGAIN, THE COALITION HARRIS COUNTY AND CITY OF HOUSTON. 
          THROUGH THAT PROCESS, SPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER WAS SELECTED TO RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL YEAR OF FUNDING TO CONTINUE THIS PROGRAM AS PART OF THE COMMUNITY-WIDE COVID HOUSING PROGRAM. 
          PHASE TWO. 
          THIS AGREEMENT WILL CONTINUE TO SERVE THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2023. 
          THAT COMES OUT TO APPROXIMATELY $4,600 PER PERSON, OR 386 PER MONTH FOR 12 MONTHS. 
          SPRING BRANCH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER BEGAN RECEIVING FUNDS FROM THE CITY IN 2020 AND TODAY, AND I HOPE THEY'RE IN THE AUDIENCE, WE ARE TO HAVE MARLON UH, TRU, WHO IS THE CEO, MIKE SMITH, THE CHIEF OF PROGRAMS, AND JOE FUENTES, THE CHIEF TRANSFORMATION OFFICER FROM SPRING BRANCH HERE IN THE AUDIENCE. 
          SHOULD THERE BE ANY QUESTIONS? I'M NOT SURE IF THEY'RE HERE. 
          MAYBE THEY DIDN'T MAKE IT IN. 
          AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND GOOD MORNING, VICE CHAIR ROBINSON. 
          HE JOINS US IN CHAMBERS. 
          UH, NO QUESTIONS REGARDING THOSE ITEMS. UM, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, ALLOW YOU SPACE AND, AND YOU AS DIRECTOR AS WELL, UM, TO SPEAK. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU PLAN ON DOING THIS DURING YOUR DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS, BUT JUST SOME OF THE IMPACT, UM, THAT THEY'VE MADE WITH OUR, UH, DR 17 FUNDS, UM, UM, IF THEY WERE RECIPIENTS OF THOSE FUNDS IN THE, IN THE RECENT PAST. 
          WELL, WE CAN DO THAT NOW. 
          OKAY. 
          SO GENERALLY SPEAKING, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE DR 17 PROGRAM, UM, THERE WAS SOME INFORMATION THAT WAS, UM, PROVIDED, I BELIEVE TO YOUR, UM, TO YOUR OFFICE. 
          AND SO, UH, WE WERE RECENTLY TOLD THAT, UM, THE REST OF THE FUNDING AVAILABLE, WHICH IS $40 MILLION OF OUR $60 MILLION FROM DR 17 FUNDS WOULD, UM, WE WOULD NO LONGER HAVE ACCESS TO. 
          AND SO WHEN WE, WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT, WE LOOK AT NOT JUST THE HOMELESS LESSNESS SYSTEM, BUT WE ALSO LOOK AT THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          THOSE ARE SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 
          ONE THIRD OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT WE SERVICE THROUGH DR 17 WERE SURVIVORS. 
          UM, THE OTHER THIRD ESSENTIALLY WAS HOMELESSNESS. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER THIRD IT TURNS OUT WAS THOSE INDIVIDUALS ACCESSING JOB TRAINING AND EDUCATION. 
          THESE SERVICES ARE CRUCIAL. 
          THEY, UM, THEY ARE NOT SEXY. 
          THEY DO NOT, UM, PROVIDE A LOT OF MONEY TO DEVELOPERS. 
          UM, IT IS HARD WORK. 
          THERE IS EVERY DOCUMENT THAT WE RECEIVE, WE MUST, UH, LOOK AT FOR ANY TYPE OF INELIGIBILITY. 
          AND I KNOW OVER THE PAST COUPLE YEARS, I'VE, I'VE TALKED TO MANY OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, LIKE, PLEASE COME TO OUR OFFICE. 
          LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT THESE PACKAGES LOOK LIKE. 
          UM, WE HAVE ANSWERED REPEATED QUESTIONS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 
          UM, BUT IT FEELS LIKE IT JUST, UM, IT'S NOT A, UH, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT A FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIP. 
          AND SO WHAT'S WHAT'S REALLY SAD ABOUT THE REMOVAL OF THAT FUNDS IS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE, THOSE WHO MAY NOT BE HOMELESS, BUT POTENTIALLY WILL BE OR NEED TO, UM, BECOME MORE RESILIENT FOR THE NEXT STORM, ARE NOT GONNA HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE FUNDING, THOSE MONEY OPPORTUNITIES. 
          THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT. 
          SO, AND, AND IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT, WE ALSO ASKED, UH, FOR, UH, UH, AN ADDITIONAL 
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YEAR AND IN, UH, ASKING FOR THAT ADDITIONAL YEAR WAS BECAUSE IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO DO ONE YEAR FUNDING FOR THESE AGENCIES. 
          IT, IT TAKES THEM, IT'S A LOT OF EFFORT. 
          IT'S A HEAVY LIFT, AND THE IMPACT IS MORE IMPACTFUL IF THEY HAVE A TWO YEAR COMMITMENT AS OPPOSED TO A ONE YEAR COMMITMENT. 
          AND WHEN THE JLO REFUSED TO GIVE US THAT ONE YEAR, IT MADE IT, UH, UH, IT BECAME AN UNREALISTIC ASK FOR US TO TRY AND, AND THAT EFFORT TO TRY TO IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM FOR ONE YEAR. 
          I MEAN, AND TO ADD ON TO THAT, WE, WE TALK ABOUT SPECIFICALLY A FH AND SPRING BRANCH PUBLIC SERVICE, UM, TYPE OF PROGRAMS. THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO HIRE MORE PEOPLE TO DO THESE PROGRAMS. AND SO WHEN WE ISSUE AN REI OR A NOFA, IT IS ALWAYS, ALMOST ALWAYS FOR ONE YEAR WITH A ONE YEAR RENEWAL AT THE DEPARTMENT'S REQUEST, BECAUSE IT TAKES APPROXIMATELY TWO TO THREE MONTHS TO HIRE UP AND HAVE YOUR STAFF IN PLACE. 
          AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA OPERATE A FULL SCALE FOR THE FOLLOWING SIX, SEVEN MONTHS. 
          AND IN THIS CASE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, AND THE REASON I SAY SIX OR SEVEN MONTHS IS IF WE'RE ENDING AT THE END OF 12 MONTHS, THEN THEY HAVE TO START DECREASING STAFF. 
          THEY HAVE TO START CLO DOING CLOSEOUT, WHICH TAKES APPROXIMATELY THREE MONTHS. 
          THESE NONPROFITS ARE ON A REIMBURSEMENT BASIS, WHICH MEANS THEY HAVE TO COME TO THE TABLE WITH ONE THIRD OF THE FUNDING THAT THEY REQUEST BECAUSE IT TAKES THAT MUCH TIME TO GET, MAKE SURE ALL DOCUMENTS ARE IN ORDER TO REIMBURSE THEM. 
          UM, SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO PUT NONPROFIT ENTITIES IN A POSITION THAT THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO, UM, HIRE UP AND THEN LET GO. 
          WHO'S GONNA WANT TO WORK FOR AN AGENCY THAT THEY ONLY KNOW ARE GONNA HAVE MAYBE SIX TO NINE MONTHS OF EMPLOYMENT. 
          SO HERE'S A BIT OF GOOD NEWS WE RECEIVED YESTERDAY. 
          WE GOT NOTICE ABOUT, UH, NEW FUNDING COMING IN, UH, FROM THE TREASURY. 
          AND I'LL LET MELANIE EXPLAIN THAT FUNDING. 
          SO WE, UH, WE REQUESTED A THIRD ALLOCATION OF THE EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, OR RENTAL EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE FUNDING FROM THE US TREASURY. 
          WE WERE, UM, ABOUT, UM, THREE O'CLOCK YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, WE RECEIVED NOTICE THAT WE WERE GOING TO RECEIVE, HOUSTON'S GONNA RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL, I THINK IT'S 4.1 TO ONE $4.5 MILLION OF THAT ERA, WHICH WILL GO TO THOSE THAT ARE IN THE EVICTION PROCESS. 
          UM, AND WE'VE ACTUALLY CHANGED THE PROGRAM, WHICH I BELIEVE KICKS OFF TODAY WHERE WE WILL BE ACCEPTING OBLIGATIONS WITH LOCKOUT NOTICES THAT ARE RIGHT BEFORE YOU GET TO THE EVICTION COURT. 
          REALLY GOOD INFORMATION. 
          THANKS FOR SHARING THAT. 
          I THINK, UM, MY COLLEAGUES AND OTHER PARTNERS WILL BE EXCITED TO HEAR THAT. 
          'CAUSE I KNOW MY OFFICE FOR ONE, WE CONSISTENTLY STILL INTERFACE WITH RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT ARE IN NEED OF RENTAL ASSISTANCE. 
          SO, UM, THANK, WANNA THANK THE DEPARTMENT AND THE LEADERSHIP FOR REALLY LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR, YOU KNOW, AN AMAZING INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO GET THAT MONEY ON THE GROUND AND TO MAKE SURE THAT 74,000 HOUSEHOLDS WERE ABLE TO RETAIN DURING THE PANDEMIC. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT. 
          NO QUESTIONS IN THE QUEUE REGARDING PUBLIC SERVICES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          SO OUR NEXT ITEM, WE WILL HAVE OUR HARVEY SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 
          AND WE'RE QUITE PROUD TO BE ABLE TO KICK THIS PROGRAM OFF. 
          SO TO EXPLAIN, THIS PROGRAM IS OUR DIVISION MANAGER OF OUR LARGE TRACK DEVELOPMENT. 
          OLIVIA BUSH. 
          YES, SIR. 
          HI, GOOD MORNING. 
          I'M MAKING ME WORK TODAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, I'M VERY HONORED TO BE IN A POSITION TO PRESENT THIS PROGRAM TO TODAY. 
          UM, DESPITE THE GLOS BEST EFFORTS, THE HARVEY SINGLE FAMILY PROGRAM IS MOVING FORWARD WITH ALL OF OUR, OUR PENDING PROJECTS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF DIRECTOR AND GUIDANCE OF DIRECTOR BYNUM. 
          UM, THIS WILL BE THE SECOND OF THE TWO PROJECTS THAT, UM, UNDER THE LARGE DIVISION THAT WILL HELP THE MAYOR HIT HIS GOAL OF 3000 HOUSES BY 2023, PART OF THE TURNER HOUSING INITIATIVE. 
          SO, UM, UM, ON, ON THE FIRST SLIDE, WE'RE LOOKING AT A PROJECT, UM, OF ABOUT $15.8 MILLION. 
          WE PRESENTED THIS, UM, OPTION AGREEMENT TO YOU LAST YEAR. 
          UM, THE NOFA COMPETITION. 
          WE, UM, WE RELEASED, ADDED ADDITIONAL $4.2 MILLION THAT WILL BE USED BY THE DEVELOPER FOR EITHER INFRASTRUCTURE OR HOME CONSTRUCTION COSTS. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          UM, THE PROJECT, UM, WE'LL ASSIST HOME BUYERS THAT WERE IMPACTED ADVERSELY FROM HURRICANE HARVEY DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, UM, AT A 80% A MI LEVEL OR BELOW. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          UM, THE DEVELOPER THAT SUBMITTED THE PROJECT, UM, PRESENTED A, UH, A PROJECT TO 
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BUILD 201 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN THE NEAR NORTH SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          THAT'S ALSO A COMPLETE COMMUNITY WITHIN HOUSTON. 
          WE WILL, UM, WITH THAT DEVELOPER, WITH OUR INVESTMENT, THE CITY'S INVESTMENT IN THE PROJECT OF, UM, $20 MILLION, WE'LL BE ABLE TO DISCOUNT THESE MARK MARKET RATE HOMES THAT WILL BE BUILT, UM, BY UP TO $135,000. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE, WHERE WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET, UH, BUILD AFFORDABLE HOMES. 
          AGAIN, THERE'LL BE MARKET RATE HOMES THAT WILL BE PRICED AT AFFORDABLE LEVEL. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          AND THAT'LL BE 103 HOMES. 
          SO, UM, WHEN WE UNDERWENT THE NOVA COMPETITION, WE WERE VERY EXCITED TO HAVE AN AMAZING DEVELOPER THAT IS WELL KNOWN WITHIN THE HOUSTON COMMUNITY AS BUILDING, UM, LUXURY HOMES PRESENT A PROJECT FOR US TO REVIEW. 
          UM, NEXT SLIDE. 
          THAT DEVELOPER IS, UH, LOVE AT HOMES. 
          HE, UM, IT WILL BE UNDER HARDY YARDS, LLC, UM, THE PRINCIPLES OF THAT, UM, COMPANY AS FRANK AND KIRBY LOU, WHO ARE HERE IN CHAMBER TODAY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          THEY'VE COMMITTED TO BUILD, UM, DISASTER RESILIENT FORTIFIED HOMES, ENERGY EFFICIENT HOMES THAT WILL ALSO MEET THE ENERGY STAR CERTIFICATION STANDARD. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          UM, IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE WE, WE MET THE NEEDS OF THE NEAR NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY. 
          WE CONDUCTED, UM, TWO MONTHS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. 
          AND THE DEVELOPER, UM, ALSO COMMITTED TO NOT ONLY, UM, MEET THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, THEY'RE ACTUALLY EXCEEDING THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE MORE OF THAT IN THE UPCOMING SLIDES. 
          SO WE ARE, UM, BASED ON, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THESE ARE PROJECTED NUMBERS, BUT IT'S OUR INTENTION TO PROVIDE 78 2 BEDROOM UNITS, 51 3 BEDROOM UNITS, AND, UM, 72 3 3 BEDROOM UNITS WITH ON, WITH A DIFFERENT FLOOR PLAN. 
          WE WILL HAVE A SET ASIDE OF A DA COMPLIANT UNITS AS WELL. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THESE ARE THE AMENITIES THAT WILL BE OFFERED THE COMMUNITY THROUGH THIS DEVELOPMENT. 
          UM, AGAIN, THIS WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CONDUCTED LAST YEAR. 
          UM, WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THIS IS A TRANSIT ORIENT DEVELOPMENT. 
          THE PROPERTY SITS RIGHT NEXT TO BURNETT TRANSIT CENTER, UM, A METRO, UM, TRANSIT CENTER. 
          UM, IT'S A VERY WALKABLE, WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE IT'S VERY WALKABLE DEVELOPMENT, AND WE'RE GONNA INCORPORATE GREEN SPACE. 
          THERE WILL BE, UM, COMMERCIAL OR, UM, 'CAUSE IT'S GONNA BE A MIXED USE COMMUNITY RIGHT ON SITE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE NEAR NORTH SIDE AND THE RESIDENTS OF THIS COMMUNITY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THIS IS A MAP THAT KIND OF SHOWS YOU WHERE THE PROPERTY SITS. 
          IT'S VERY WELL POSITIONED, UM, FOR THE, DOWN IN THE DOWNTOWN CORRIDOR. 
          IT'S VERY CLOSE TO UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN. 
          UM, SO WE FEEL LIKE THIS IS A VERY DESIRABLE DEVELOPMENT AND PROPERTY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO AS YOU SEE, THIS IS A PROPOSED, UM, SITE PLAN AND LAYOUT. 
          AND, UM, ON THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A, A BETTER LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS THE OVERALL, UM, FLOOR PLAN. 
          ACTUALLY, WE'RE GONNA GIVE, GIVE YOU A, A BEAUTIFUL SITE MAP OR A LOOK OF WHAT THE SITE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN VIEW. 
          UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS BUILDING A THREE STORY TOWN HOME COMMUNITY. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THAT YOU, THANK YOU, SIR. 
          SO THAT, UM, SO THAT THEY'LL BE ABLE TO PRESERVE THAT VIEW AND THE OWNERS AND THAT, THAT WILL BE BUYING INTO THE COMMUNITY WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO SEE THAT VIEW. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO THAT'S THE, UM, COMMERCIAL SPACE, UM, THAT IS, UM, ANTICIPATED POSSIBLY FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT AS WELL AS THERE IS A, UM, IF YOU LIKE BEER, , BAD ASTRONAUT BREWERY, THAT'LL BE RIGHT WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THE FACILITY. 
          WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT NEXT SLIDE. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          SO THAT'S IT. 
          UM, I'M VERY EXCITED TO PRESENT THIS PROJECT TO YOU AND I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. 
          VERY IMPRESSIVE PRESENTATION. 
          AND I KNOW YOU'VE, UM, SHARED AN UPDATE WITH THIS PROJECT, REALLY THE LARGE TRACK DIVISION PROGRAM IN THE PAST. 
          UH, VICE CHAIR ROBINSON, THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          MM-HMM . 
          AND THANKS FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          JUST WANT TO COMMENT THAT THIS IS, IT'S REALLY EXCITING. 
          AND OF COURSE, AS YOU MENTIONED, THE DEVELOPERS HERE IN THE CHAMBERS. 
          SO THIS IS REALLY DIRECTED AT THEM AND, AND, UH, FRANK AND TO KIRBY FOR THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE DOING. 
          NOT ONLY, UH, HELPING US IN PROVIDING THESE INCREDIBLE UNITS, BUT, UM, I THINK THE WORD THAT YOU USED MS. BUSH WAS EXCEED. 
          AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT IS, THAT'S A WORD THAT LOVE AT HOMES AND THE 
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LOSE, UH, CONTINUE TO DO TO TRANSFORM THE LANDSCAPE OF OUR CITY. 
          THAT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WITH THE AMENITY PACKAGE, THAT'S WITH, UH, THE NUMBER OF UNITS AS YOU MENTIONED, CERTAINLY WITH ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. 
          AND AGAIN, MY HAT IS OFF TO BOTH FRANK AND KIRBY IN THEIR TEAM FOR ASSEMBLING SUCH AN IMPORTANT, UH, SITE AND DEVELOPING IT. 
          AND IN SUCH A COMPELLING WAY. 
          IT'S NOT THE FIRST FOR THIS GROUP. 
          IT IS, UH, THE NEXT IN A SIGNIFICANT PORTFOLIO TRANSFORMING THE NORTH SIDE DISTRICT H UM, AND I AM GRATEFUL AND LOOK FORWARD TO MORE FROM THESE FINE FOLKS. 
          I AGREE. 
          AND IF I COULD JUST MENTION, UM, THIS IS A PASSION PROJECT FOR THE DEVELOPER. 
          HE'S DOING THIS IN HONOR OF HIS, UM, HIS SON, AND WE FEEL VERY MUCH APPRECIATIVE THAT HE'S, HE'S GONE THROUGH THIS GREAT LENGTHS TO NOT LOWER THE QUALITY OR THE STANDARD OF HIS BUILDING JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA BE PRICED AT AFFORDABLE LEVEL. 
          SO IT'S AN AWESOME OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR, UM, CONSTITUENTS TO BE ABLE TO BUY INTO THIS PROPERTY, AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THESE, FOR OUR RESIDENTS. 
          LONG LIVED. 
          FRANK JUNIOR, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          AND, UM, UM, HOPEFULLY ONE DAY WE WILL HAVE DEVELOPERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT WOULD SEE THIS, YOU KNOW, PROJECTS LIKE THIS. 
          THEY WOULD DO THIS BASED ON PRINCIPLE BECAUSE PEOPLE DESERVE THESE TYPES OF DEVELOPMENTS. 
          WONDERFUL DESIGN. 
          UM, COUNCIL MEMBER CISNEROS, THE ONE WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THE RIBBON CUTTING OF THIS PHENOMENAL PROJECT. 
          SHE'S IN THE QUEUE FOR YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU AND GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. 
          UM, AND FRANK AND KIRBY, UM, KUDOS TO YOU. 
          I'M, I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I SAW THAT, THAT, UM, THAT, THAT YOU HAD APPLIED FOR THIS AND THAT THEN, AND WERE SELECTED TO, YOU KNOW, FOR THIS PROJECT. 
          THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT, UM, UM, PROJECT FOR THE, THE NEAR NORTH SIDE AND, AND FOR THE CITY AS A WHOLE. 
          I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S SO STRATEGICALLY LOCATED AND, AND, AND YOU ARE THE ONES TO DO IT. 
          I'M, I'M THRILLED ABOUT THAT. 
          UM, AND I, AND I, AND I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT AND, YOU KNOW, FOR ALL THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT, THAT YOU, UM, YOU, YOU HAD AT STRUCTURED MEETINGS AND, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SO, UM, AVAILABLE AND, AND WILLING TO MEET WITH INDIVIDUALS AND CALLS AND COMMENTS. 
          THERE WAS A LOT OF INTEREST THERE HAS BEEN, THERE WILL CONTINUE TO BE A LOT OF INTEREST IN THIS PROJECT. 
          BUT, BUT I FEEL LIKE YOU'VE, YOU REALLY HAVE HEARD THE, THE COMMUNITY. 
          UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO THEM WAS THAT IT WOULD BE A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT, NOT JUST HOUSING. 
          SO, UM, THAT'S, YOU HEARD THAT, AND HERE IT IS. 
          SO THAT'S REALLY WONDERFUL. 
          UM, SO THANK, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. 
          THANK YOU MUCH. 
          THAT CONCLUDES COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 
          REALLY GOOD WORK. 
          WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT. 
          IT'S A LOT OF WORK THAT WENT INTO GETTING HARDY YARDS, UH, TO THIS LEVEL. 
          SO WE ARE VERY PROUD THAT THIS IS FINALLY, UH, GONNA GET KICKED OFF. 
          AND IT, AS IT SHOULD BE, THIS IS A PHENOMENAL, UM, PROJECT AND HOPEFULLY A MODEL OF HOW DEVELOPMENT CAN LOOK INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, UM, PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE AT THE, A CERTAIN, UM, INCOME RANGE. 
          SO THIS IS REALLY EXCITING. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          AND THEN, AS AN ASIDE, BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN, UM, SHARED A NOTE FOR OUR PUBLIC SERVICES TEAM. 
          UM, COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN JUST WANTS TO SEND HER THANKS TO MIKE NICHOLS, ANNA AND THE ENTIRE TEAM OF COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS AND THEREFORE THEIR PARTNERSHIP AND WORK. 
          SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I SHARED HER REMARKS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, THANK YOU. 
          SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO, UH, THE NEXT PART OF THE, UNDER THE DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS. 
          YOU KNOW, AT THIS POINT, WE ALWAYS, UH, DO AN UPDATE, UH, FOR ANYONE AND EVERYONE WHO'S BEEN, UH, AWARE OF WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS. 
          OUR INTERACTION WITH THE GLO HAS BEEN VERY CHALLENGING AND, AND SOMEWHAT, UH, UH, DIFFICULT. 
          BUT WE ARE GONNA PERSEVERE, UH, THROUGH ALL OF THAT MADNESS AS WE CONTINUE TO DO, UH, WHAT WE DO. 
          UH, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO TAMIKA JONES, WHO WILL NOW DO, UH, DR. 
          17 UPDATE. 
          GOOD MORNING COMMITTEE. 
          YEP. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, IF WE COULD MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT THE COMMITTEE, UM, IS SOME ADDITIONAL CONTEXT AND INFORMATION RELATED TO WHAT THE GS UH, NOTIFICATION TO THE CITY WAS. 
          UM, AS YOU SEE HERE, THE, THE CITY DID NOT MEET, UM, A COUPLE OF, ITS SEVERAL OF ITS BENCHMARKS, UH, JUNE 30TH, 2022 BENCHMARKS. 
          UM, I, I DO WANNA REMIND THE COMMITTEE THAT OUR BENCHMARKS ARE BASED ON REIMBURSEMENTS OR APPROVAL OF REIMBURSEMENTS TO THE CITY. 
          SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT, THERE ARE SEVERAL APPROVALS THAT ALL START WITH THE GLO PRIOR TO US RECEIVING APPROVAL TO GET REIMBURSED THE FUNDS FIRST, THE GLO HAS TO APPROVE THE PROJECT AND ALSO APPROVE THE ELIGIBILITY OF THAT PROJECT. 
          IF ALL ITEMS ARE CLEARED AND ELIGIBILITY APPROVAL 
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IS MAINTAINED OR OBTAINED, THEN THE CITY CAN SPEND THE FUNDS AND THEN SUBMIT FOR REIMBURSEMENT. 
          SO IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO MEET A REIMBURSEMENT BENCHMARK WHEN REIMBURSEMENT AND APPROVAL OF THAT REIMBURSEMENT IS AT THE END OF THE PROCESS. 
          AND THE ONLY CONTROL THE CITY HAS IS REPLYING TO EVERY SINGLE REQUEST THE GLO MAKES. 
          SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT IS CLEAR, UM, BECAUSE THE, THE CONTEXT OF THEIR BENCHMARKS LETTERS DID NOT MAKE THAT CLEAR. 
          UM, I ALSO WANT TO MAKE IT KNOWN TO THE COMMITTEE THAT WHILE WE DID RECEIVE APPROVALS OF 200 AND OVER 276 MILLION, ALMOST 277 MILLION FOR SEVERAL OF OUR PROGRAMS, WE HAD SUBMITTED OVER 296 MILLION. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE YOU SEE THE SUBMISSIONS. 
          SO SUBMISSIONS INCLUDE ALL OF THE ITEMS THAT WE HAD SUBMITTED TO THE GLO THAT WE'RE WAITING FOR GLO APPROVAL. 
          I ALSO WANNA MAKE NOTE, WHAT YOU DO NOT SEE HERE IS 37.4 MILLION IN REIMBURSEMENTS THAT WERE SUBMITTED ON OCTOBER 28TH, 2021, THAT THE GLO IS REFUSING TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND REFUSING TO REVIEW SIMPLY DUE TO AN INTERPRETATION OF SOME GUIDANCE THAT THEY GAVE US. 
          THEY'RE REFUSING TO REVIEW THOSE, AND THOSE PRIMARILY RELATE TO SALARY AND PROJECT DELIVERY COST. 
          AND SO THE NUMBERS YOU SEE HERE, THE 296 MILLION DO NOT INCLUDE 37.4 MILLION IN ELIGIBLE EXPENSES AT THE TIME THEY WERE INCURRED. 
          THE GLO IS REFUSING TO REVIEW THOSE. 
          AND SO I ALSO, YOU WILL SEE THE APPROVALS AND THEN THE AMOUNT REMAINING TO MEET THE BENCHMARKS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. 
          ALSO, I DO THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO, OOPS, GO BACK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO SUMMARIZE THE, THE NUMBER OF EMAILS THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM THE GLO, WHAT THEIR INTENTIONS ON HOW THEY WILL REDUCE, UH, SEVERAL OF OUR PROGRAMS. WHAT YOU WILL SEE OVER IS THE ORIGINAL BUDGET, WHICH WAS OUR 2022, I'M SORRY, 2021 CONTRACT, AND THEN WHAT THEY'VE SUBMITTED TO US VIA EMAIL AND A REVISED BUDGET, AND THEN THE TOTAL AMOUNT TO BE REDUCED IN THE THIRD COLUMN. 
          ONE ITEM I DO WANNA MAKE NOTE OF, 'CAUSE I DO THINK IT IS VERY SIGNIFICANT, IS OUR SMALL RENTAL PROGRAM. 
          WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS MONTHS FOR MONTHS WHERE THE GLO WAS WITHHOLDING ELIGIBILITY APPROVAL. 
          WE WERE NOTIFIED THAT ONLY FIVE OF THE 12 PROJECTS SUBMITTED TO THE GLO WILL BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE. 
          THAT'S ABOUT 31 UNITS, AND OF THE REMAINING SEVEN THAT THE GLL WILL NOT CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          THAT EQUATES TO JUST ABOUT 43 UNITS. 
          IF I READ THE TEAM'S DATA CORRECTLY, UH, FIVE OF THEM HAD ALREADY RECEIVED APPROVAL TO UTILIZE GRANT FUNDS FROM THE GLL, BUT THAT LAST CRITICAL STEP IS ELIGIBILITY APPROVAL, AND THAT'S WHAT THE GLO AGAIN CONTINUED TO WITHHOLD. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE IMPACT OF SOME OF THE PROGRAMS AND THESE NONPROFITS THAT WERE GOING TO BE DEVELOPERS FOR THE PROGRAM, SEVEN OF THE 12 WERE NOT ALLOWED TO BE MOVED FORWARD. 
          AND WE WILL HAVE TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE GLO ON ALL OF THE COSTS THAT HAVE BEEN INCURRED TO DATE BY ALL THOSE NONPROFITS FOR THE PROJECTS THAT WILL NOT MOVE FORWARD. 
          AND YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW IMPACTFUL THAT COST ALL THOSE PRE-DEVELOPMENT COSTS WOULD BE TO NONPROFITS. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER PECK, THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR THE, UM, SUMMARY OF, OR THE UPDATE FOR THE, UM, PROJECTS THAT WERE SUBMITTED IN OCTOBER THAT THE GLO, UM, THAT YOU SAY THE GLO HAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED. 
          WOULD THAT HAVE HELPED US OR WOULD THAT HAVE MET ANY OF THOSE BENCHMARKS THAT WE WERE STILL UNDER ON? OR, OR THE ONES THAT WOULD'VE BEEN SATISFIED HAVE THAT BEEN SUBMITTED? VERY GOOD QUESTION. 
          YES. 
          SO WHAT THEY'RE REFUSING TO REVIEW, WOULD THAT HAVE HELPED TO MEET OUR BENCHMARKS IN THOSE AREAS? MM-HMM . 
          UM, WE HAD ABOUT NINE AND A HALF MILLION IN ADMIN COSTS THAT WERE SUBMITTED THAT THE GLOS REFUSING ADMIN DOES NOT HAVE A BENCHMARK, BUT THAT'S NINE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS OF COST THE CITY'S INCURRED. 
          UM, AND OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, IT WAS ABOUT 360,000. 
          SO THAT WOULD NOT HAVE MADE A SIGNIFICANT DENT IN THE OUTSTANDING BENCHMARK, BUT IT WAS A LOT OF STARTUP COSTS THAT WAS INCURRED TO GET THE PROGRAM STARTED, TO DEVELOP THE FORMS, TO DEVELOP THE PROCESS, THE GUIDELINES, ALL THOSE STARTUP COSTS THAT ARE NECESSARY AND ELIGIBLE AT THE TIME THEY'RE INCURRED. 
          GLOS REFUSING TO, UM, REVIEW HOPE ON THE OTHER HAND, HAD WELL OVER $26 MILLION. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK, HOPE WAS JUST OVER 25 MILLION AWAY FROM THEIR BENCHMARK. 
          AND WHILE THE GLO DID TAKE THAT PROGRAM, THAT 26 MILLION WOULD'VE EXCEEDED WHAT THE BENCHMARK WOULD'VE BEEN. 
          AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, IN OUR HOME BUYERS PROGRAM, AGAIN, A LOT OF STARTUP COSTS THAT WAS ABOUT 900,000 AWAY. 
          UM, I'M SORRY, 900,000 IN COST, NOT REVIEWED, 
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BUT THEY WERE ABOUT $3.2 MILLION AWAY. 
          BUT WE'VE SEEN SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES IN THE MARK IN THE MARKET WITH INTEREST RATE INCREASES, INABILITY TO FIND QUALIFIED HOME BUYERS, EVERYTHING TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE A $30,000 DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE. 
          SO THERE WERE SEVERAL OTHER CHALLENGES WHICH THE GLO DID ASK THE CITY TO PREPARE A MEMO EXPLAINING EACH OF THE CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES BY PROGRAM, WHICH WE DID. 
          AND THEY ASKED US TO SUBMIT THAT IN CONSIDERATION FOR ASSESSMENT TO MEET THE BENCHMARKS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT MONEY WOULD'VE BASICALLY HELPED TO JUST SATISFY ONE, ONE OF THE BENCHMARKS. 
          ONE CORRECT. 
          AND CHAIR, CAN I ASK ONE MORE QUESTION AND THEN, UM, MOTION TO EXTEND SECOND. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THEN, UM, FOR ALL OF THE OTHER BENCHMARKS, UM, IT'S A CITY'S POSITION THAT THE GLO HAS TO APPROVE ITEMS IN ORDER FOR THE CITY TO THEN BE ABLE TO MEET THE BENCHMARKS. 
          CORRECT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, YEP. 
          SO IF YOU REMEMBER ON OUR MULTIFAMILY PROGRAM, IF WE TAKE A LOOK, OUR MULTIFAMILY PROGRAM WAS JUST UNDER 42 MILLION AWAY FROM ITS BENCHMARKS. 
          THE GLO WITHHELD OVER $90 MILLION OF APPROVALS FOR EIGHT MONTHS. 
          SO AGAIN, IF WE DON'T RECEIVE PROJECT ELIGIBILITY APPROVAL, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND TAKE IT TO CITY COUNCIL AND SPEND THE FUNDS. 
          BUT WHAT THE GLO IS GOING TO SAY IS, THAT'S AN INELIGIBLE COST. 
          YOU DIDN'T RECEIVE APPROVAL PRIOR TO SPENDING THE FUNDS, THEREFORE WE WON'T REIMBURSE YOU. 
          SO MULTIFAMILY RIGHT AWAY IS THE HUGE THAT COMES TO MIND. 
          PUBLIC SERVICES, GLO WITHHELD CONTRACT AMENDMENTS, UH, MELODY TALKED ABOUT IT WITH JUST INCREASING THE BUDGETS FOR EACH OF THOSE AGENCIES AND REQUIRED UNNECESSARY UNREASONABLE DOCUMENTATION THAT HAS NEVER BEEN REQUESTED BEFORE. 
          LET ME ADD, HAD NEVER BEEN REQUESTED BEFORE, JUST TO GET A CONTRACT AND A BUDGET INCREASE. 
          AND SO WHEN YOU WITHHOLD AMENDING THE BUDGET TO INCREASE, THAT DOESN'T ALLOW SPENDING TO HAPPEN, WHICH ALSO DOESN'T ALLOW US TO SUBMIT FOR REIMBURSEMENTS FOR SPENDING THAT DID NOT OCCUR. 
          SO IT'S A DOMINO EFFECT THAT, UM, IS NOT QUITE CLEAR IN ANY OF THE COMMUNICATIONS WE RECEIVED FROM THE GLO. 
          DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? OKAY, THANKS. 
          AND IF I CAN ADD ON THOSE, UH, PUBLIC SERVICES, UH, THE GLO REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT, UH, NONPROFIT AGENCIES WERE GOING THROUGH SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES THAT THIS COUNTRY HAD EVER GONE THROUGH. 
          THEY WERE GOING THROUGH HAR, UH, THROUGH COVID. 
          THEY WERE HAVING, UH, UH, EMPLOYMENT PROBLEMS, SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES. 
          WE WERE HAVING ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT, UH, CHALLENGES THAT EVERYONE WAS GOING THROUGH, BUT THEY WERE REFUSED TO ACCEPT THAT AS REASONING FOR WHY THOSE AGENCIES WEREN'T ABLE TO PERFORM THROUGH, UH, 20, GOING INTO 21. 
          AND THEN, UH, WHEN THEY COULD SEE THAT THEY WERE MAKING THOSE TURNAROUNDS, THEY STILL REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT, UH, THAT WAS A NEEDED ADJUSTMENT TO THOSE CONTRACTS. 
          THE QUESTIONS IN THE QUEUE? OKAY, YOU CAN CONTINUE. 
          I WOULD JUST LIKE TO BRIEFLY COVER JUST SOME OF OUR UPDATES, UM, FOR OUR HOME BUYER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 
          YOU CAN SEE AGAIN FISCAL YEAR 20 AND 21. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          OH, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. 
          HOME BUYER ASSISTANCE, UH, FISCAL YEAR 21 AND 22, ALONG WITH OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOME REPAIR PROGRAM. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          JUST SOME UPDATES, CUMULATIVE TOTALS. 
          AND THEN NEXT SLIDE JUST GIVES YOU A HIGHLIGHT OF WHERE WE STAND FISCAL YEAR TO DATE, UH, ON PROJECTS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, AND THEN PROJECTS COMPLETED. 
          AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, OVER 170,000 INDIVIDUALS SERVED THROUGH OUR PUBLIC SERVICES PROGRAM. 
          MAY I INTERJECT HERE? IF WE CAN GO BACK TO PAGE 38. 
          I HAVE A OLD PRESCRIPTION I CAN'T REALLY SEE. 
          YES. 
          UH, THAT'S OTHER PROGRAMS. IT HAS THE OTHER PROGRAMS. NO, THE, UH, LET'S SAY, WHICH ONE? THE FINANCIAL UPDATE SLIDE. 
          YEP. 
          FINANCIAL UPDATE SLIDE. 
          SURE. 
          AND SO I'M GLAD THAT YOU ENDED WITH THE, UH, NUMBER OF PERSONS IN TERMS OF IMPACT THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SERVE WITH THAT. 
          SO WHEN WE LOOK AT, UH, THE REDUCTION, CAN YOU SPEAK OR PROVIDE CONTEXT TO THE NUMBER? AND MAYBE DIRECTOR, YOU'LL, YOU'LL HAVE TO RESPOND TO THIS BECAUSE IF THEY'RE CUTTING PROGRAMS IN HALF FINANCIALLY, IN TERMS OF IMPACT, WHAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO WITH THE REMAINING FUNDS FOR THE PERIOD OF THE PROGRAM. 
          IN FACT, I WOULD LIKE TO BRING, UH, MELODY BARRA TO DISCUSS THAT BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR PUBLIC SERVICES PROGRAM, WE HAVE EXPENDED ALMOST ALL OF THE 20 MILLION THAT THE GLO IS ALLOWING TO SIT THE CITY TO KEEP AND FOR THE OTHER LINE ITEMS. I MEAN, EVEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HOME BUYER ASSISTANCE, JUST ALL OF THEM, THAT THE, THE CLAW BACK IN TERMS OF IMPACT THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE INTO THE CITY. 
          I MEAN, IF YOU'RE CUTTING IT IN HALF, ABSOLUTELY. 
          SO IF WE JUST, IF WE START AT THE TOP, LET'S LOOK AT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          I MEAN, YOU'RE TAKING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, YOU'RE TAKING A THIRD OF THE PROGRAM THAT IS A THIRD OF THE PROGRAM 
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DESIGNED TO HELP BUSINESSES RECOVER FROM HARVEY. 
          SMALL BUSINESS GRANTS BUSINESSES WILL NOT RECEIVE 11.3, ALMOST $11.4 MILLION. 
          YOU CAN IMAGINE. 
          WHAT THAT DOES, WHAT THE GLO HAS INDICATED IS WE'LL ALLOW YOU TO KEEP THINGS THAT ARE IN YOUR PIPELINE AND APPROVE TO THIS DATE. 
          EVERYTHING ELSE WE'RE GONNA TAKE, AND WE'RE GONNA PUT INTO OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOME REPAIR PROGRAM THAT'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          SO YOU CAN IMAGINE IF A AVERAGE BUSINESS GETS, UM, JUST UNDER HUNDRED AND $50,000 AT MOST PER GRANT, YOU CAN DO THE MATH AND SEE THE NUMBER OF BUSINESSES IMPACTED BY THAT. 
          AND THAT'S JUST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 
          NEXT, IF YOU TALK ABOUT HOPE, HOPE, THE GLO HAD ALREADY TAKEN OVER THE PROGRAM, THEY'D ALREADY TAKEN OVER THE PROGRAM, SUBSTANTIAL, WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO DO MUCH OTHER THAN JUST CONTINUE THOSE THAT WERE IN OUR PIPELINE, AND THEN WE WOULD GIVE HOMES TO ONE ANOTHER. 
          IF THEY DECIDED THEY DIDN'T LIKE WORKING WITH AN APPLICANT, THEN THEY WOULD GIVE THE APPLICANT BACK TO THE CITY. 
          SO THIS IS JUST THAT, THAT'S NOT, UM, UNUSUAL TO SEE FOR THE WHOLE PROGRAM. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT HOME BUYERS, $13 MILLION, YOU CAN EASILY DO THE MATH THERE. 
          YOU'RE TALKING $30,000 PER APPLICANT IN DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE, WHICH WE KNOW AND HAD PUT IN A REQUEST TO INCREASE THAT AMOUNT TO $50,000. 
          GLO JUST DISREGARDED THAT REQUEST AND SAID, YOU HAVEN'T SPENT THE MONEY, WE'RE GOING TO CALL IT BACK AND PUT IT INTO OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOME REPAIR PROGRAM. 
          AND SO YOU CAN IMAGINE AND CALCULATE THE NUMBER OF HOMEOWNERS THAT ARE IMPACTED BY THAT $40 MILLION. 
          THAT'S TWO THIRDS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICES BUDGET, TWO THIRDS OF IT BEING TAKEN BACK AWAY FROM THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT NEED THOSE SERVICES. 
          MELODY TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, A THIRD OF THAT WENT TO JOB TRAINING. 
          A THIRD OF THAT WENT TO SURVIVORS OF, OF VIOLENCE, WHETHER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OR NOT. 
          AND THEN A THIRD OF THAT HOMELESSNESS. 
          SO WHAT THEY'VE DONE IS BASICALLY SAID, THOSE ARE UNIMPORTANT SINGLE FAMILY HOME REPAIRS MORE IMPORTANT TO US, AND WE WILL GO AHEAD AND CLAW BACK THOSE FUNDS THERE. 
          WE'D ACTUALLY MADE A REQUEST TO KEEP THOSE FUNDS AND PUT THEM AND CREATE MORE AFFORDABLE UNITS WITHIN OUR MULTIFAMILY PROGRAM. 
          GLO SAID, NO, WE'RE GONNA TAKE THE MONEY AND WE'RE GONNA PUT IT INTO OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOME REPAIR PROGRAM. 
          TWO THIRDS OF THE BUDGET. 
          AND THEN I'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SMALL RENTAL PROGRAM AND THE IMPACT THERE. 
          I MEAN, JUST THINK ABOUT THE PRE-DEVELOPMENT COST FOR NONPROFITS THAT HAVE INCURRED THESE COSTS, EXPECTING THESE PROJECTS TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          WHEN WE HAD ALREADY RECEIVED ONE OF THE APPROVALS FROM THE GLO, WHICH WAS THE A UGF, JUST WAITING ON ELIGIBILITY APPROVAL. 
          SO YOU CAN, YOU CAN SEE THE IMPACT BY PROGRAM THOSE THAT THEY HAVE ALLOWED US TO KEEP. 
          THIS WAS BUYOUT. 
          WELL, ALSO IN THE GO COMMUNICATION, THEY FAILED TO REALIZE THE SUCCESS THAT THE BUYOUT PROGRAM HAS HAD. 
          AND SO YES, THE TRANSACTIONS AND THE ACQUISITION OF THOSE PROPERTIES HAVE CLOSED, BUT WE DIDN'T GET CREDIT FOR DOING A LOT OF THE WORK. 
          RIGHT. 
          WHAT COMES NEXT IS A LOT OF THE RELOCATION ASSISTANCE. 
          AND THEN IF I COULD MENTION JUST ON THE SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT DIVISION MANAGER, OLIVIA BUSH WAS JUST HERE TALKING ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THAT PROGRAM. 
          AND WHAT YOU ALSO DON'T SEE IS THAT BENCHMARK WAS MET LAST YEAR. 
          SO THEY ALREADY STARTED WHEN THEY CLOSED THE HARDY YARDS TRANSACTION, THEY HAD ALREADY MET THE BENCHMARK, YOU KNOW, FOR A YEAR DOWN THE LINE. 
          SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE, THE ADDITIONAL CONTEXT AND COLOR THAT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE G'S COMMUNICATIONS, UM, OR THEY CHOSE TO OMIT SOME OF THE CRITICAL DETAILS AND HOW CRITICAL THEY WERE TO A LOT OF US MEETING OUR BENCHMARKS. 
          I THINK YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 
          AND I THINK ANOTHER, UM, UH, UH, CRI CRITICAL PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT WAS LEFT OUT WAS THE NUMBER OF HOMES THAT THEY'RE CLAIMING SUCCESS FOR, THAT THE CITY OF HOUSTON, ACTUALLY, ONCE THEY ACQUIRED THE PROGRAM, MAJORITY OF THOSE HOMES WERE OURS, UM, WITH THE ADDITION OF THE THIRD BEDROOM WITH TURS DOLLARS. 
          AND SO I THINK IF WE'RE GOING BY THE NUMBERS, WE HAVE TO BE VERY FACTUAL AND ACTUAL WITH THE TYPE OF WORK THAT WE WERE LEADING IN THE CITY TO RESPOND TO, UM, THE IMPACT OF HARVEY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMANS IN THE QUEUE FOR COMMENT. 
          SUSAN, THANK YOU, CHAIRWOMAN. 
          UM, AND I, I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS PRESENTATION. 
          UM, GOING LINE ITEM BY LINE ITEM THROUGH WHAT SPECIFICALLY THE CITY OF HOUSTON IS LOSING, UM, IN A WAY THAT IS UNFOUNDED AND UNGROUNDED BASED ON, UH, THE LACK OF THE G'S UH, CLAIMS AT THIS POINT. 
          UH, WHILE ALL OF IT IS EXTREMELY CONCERNING, UM, AND I KNOW THAT THE CITY IS GONNA CONTINUE, UM, TO, UH, APPEAL THIS FIGHT AGAINST IT, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE DOLLARS STAY LOCALLY. 
          UM, A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT THAT I HAD NOT CONSIDERED WAS JUST RAISED, AND I'M HOPING WE CAN GET SOME ADDITIONAL NUMBERS IN TERMS OF PROGRAMMATIC RELIANCE COSTS, UM, THAT THE CITY WILL THEN IN TURN INCUR, UH, BASED ON THE RELIANCE OF THE GLO APPROVING THINGS MOVING FORWARD. 
          UM, SO AGAIN, I KNOW THAT WE'RE, UH, LOSING A LOT OF MONEY HERE. 
          UM, BUT I I, I'D LIKE US IF WE CAN, MADAM 
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CHAIR, UM, TO HAVE SOME UPDATED NUMBERS THAT SPECIFICALLY FOCUS ON RELIANCE COSTS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YES, SURE. 
          WE CAN GET THAT. 
          WE'LL GET THAT FOR YOU. 
          MM-HMM . 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          NO OTHER QUESTIONS? NO OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? ALRIGHT. 
          SO WE WILL GO ON. 
          I WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, PROVIDING YOU SOME HIGHLIGHTS AND IF WE COULD ADVANCE THE SLIDES TO, UH, THERE WE GO. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          UH, WANNA REMIND EVERYONE THAT, UH, EVERY WEEK, UH, WE HAVE, UH, COMM VIRTUAL COMMUNITY OFFICE HOURS. 
          THAT'S EVERY WEDNESDAY, ONE THROUGH FOUR. 
          AND THAT INFORMATION IS, UH, OPEN, UH, TO EVERYONE. 
          UH, AND YOU WILL FIND ALL THE NUMBER CONTACT NUMBERS ARE THERE, UH, FOR YOU, UH, UPDATES ON PROJECTS THAT ARE, ARE MOVING FORWARD. 
          WE WANT TO, NEXT SLIDE. 
          WE HAVE AN UPDATE ON, UH, TIMINOS PLACE, WHICH IS AT 1703 GRAY. 
          UH, AND THAT'S IN DISTRICT D. 
          IT IS 27% COMPLETE AS OF JULY OF THIS YEAR. 
          UM, AND IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE, UH, UH, UH, PHOTO OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF THAT ONE. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          UPDATE ON, UH, SUNRISE LS, WHICH IS ON 31 0 3 MCKINNEY, UH, IN DISTRICT I. 
          THIS ONE IS 47%, UH, COMPLETE AS OF JULY. 
          THIS IS, WE'LL HAVE A TOTAL OF 89 UNITS IN THIS ONE. 
          AND THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU WILL SEE A PHOTO OF THAT PROJECT. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          THE CITADEL AND CITADEL WAS, UH, ONE OF THE, UH, WAS THE PHOTO THAT WAS USED IN TODAY'S ARTICLE IN THE CHRONICLE IS 33 45. 
          ELGIN, ALSO IN DISTRICT D IS 34% COMPLETE. 
          AND, UH, THIS ONE WILL HAVE A TOTAL OF 74 UNITS. 
          AND IF YOU MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU WILL SEE THE, UH, UH, PHOTO OF THAT ONE. 
          NEXT SLIDE, NEW HOPE HOUSING SAVOY, UH, WHICH IS 63 15 SAVOY IN DISTRICT J. 
          UH, THIS ONE IS 39% COMPLETE AS OF JULY. 
          UH, THIS, THIS COMPLEX WILL HAVE 120 UNITS, AND IF YOU MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU WILL SEE A PHOTO OF THAT PROJECT MOVING FORWARD. 
          NEXT SLIDE. 
          UH, HERITAGE SENIOR RESIDENCE, WHICH IS ON 1102 MOY, UH, IN DISTRICT H. 
          THIS PROJECT IS 56% COMPLETE AS OF JULY. 
          AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          YOU WILL SEE A PHOTO OF THAT, THAT PROJECT WILL BE A, A TOTAL OF 135 UNITS. 
          NEXT SLIDE, OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOME REPAIR PROGRAM. 
          AND IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE A PICTURE OF ON TOPPING STREET, A PICTURE OF A UNIT THAT, UH, A RESIDENCE THAT WAS JUST COMPLETED IN DISTRICT B AND WHERE WE DID A KEY EXCHANGE. 
          I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE, UH, WHAT THE HOMEOWNER'S NAME IS ON THIS ONE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT SHE DOES HAVE A BIG SMILE ON HER FACE AS SHE TAKES OWNERSHIP AND DO THE KEY EXCHANGE ON THAT PARTICULAR PROPERTY. 
          UH, WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE, UH, MAKE OURSELVES AVAILABLE. 
          YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE, YOU CAN SEE ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, AND, UH, ALL THE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO EVERYTHING THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS DOING IS, UH, ON THAT SITE. 
          AND THAT IS OUR PRESENTATION FOR TODAY. 
          UH, ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? ONE CLARIFYING QUESTION FOR THE, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE DISTRICT D IS GETTING ALL THE LOVE WITH MULTIFAMILY. 
          THEY GETTING ALL THE NEW PROJECTS, UH, DISTRICT F ON GETTING NO LOVE. 
          UH, THEY JUST STARTED EARLY. 
          THEY JUST STARTED EARLY. 
          THEY STARTED EARLY. 
          A QUICK QUESTION, AND JUST TO REFRESH MY MEMORY, MAYBE THIS IS A, A, A A RAY QUESTION. 
          ARE THESE 2020 9% VOY, OR, OR IS IT A MIX OF DEALS, IF YOU MAY? YES. 
          UH, CHAIR, YES. 
          MOST ARE 20, 29% TRANSACTIONS. 
          A FEW, UH, ONE OR TWO HAVE BEEN EVEN 2019, BUT THEY'RE JUST NOW, UH, FINISHING UP MOSTLY ARE ARE 2020. 
          THAT'S WHAT I WAS FIGURING JUST IN TERMS OF, I, I KNEW THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, LABOR CHALLENGES AND THEY WERE HAVING, YOU KNOW MM-HMM . 
          JUST SIMPLE MARKET DELAYS. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO JUST REMEMBERING THE NAME, JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE HOW OUR PROJECTS ARE TRACKING ABSOLUTELY. 
          ON TIMELINE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND, AND JUST TO, UH, ON YOUR OTHER COMMENT, WE, WE, WE TAKE, UH, AN EXCEPTIONAL, UH, APPROACH TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL REP ALL DISTRICTS ARE REPRESENTED, UH, MAYBE NOT EQUALLY, EQUALLY, I KNOW, BUT DISTRICT D'S GETTING ALL THE GOOD LOVE, GOOD PHOTOS. 
          I KNOW, BUT, BUT AS THE DIRECTOR NOTED, YES. 
          DISTRICT D TRANSACTIONS, YES, THEY ARE. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE ROCKING ENROLLING AT THIS POINT. 
          BUT AT, AT 
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SOME POINT, WE WOULD LOVE TO PROVIDE A SUMMARY TO, UH, TO THIS, UH, TO THIS COMMITTEE, UH, LETTING KNOW, UH, THE, ALL THE TRANSACTIONS WHERE THEY ARE, THEIR STATUS AND THEIR OPENINGS. 
          FOR SURE. 
          FOR SURE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER ROBINSON. 
          THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          AND I JUST DIDN'T WANT IT TO GO ON NOTICE THAT YOU ALL REALLY HAVE, UH, LISTENED TO THE COMMITTEE, TO THE CHAIR, UH, TO MY, UM, MY REQUEST TO MENTION THE ARCHITECT'S NAME. 
          AND AS DESIGN IS REALLY IMPORTANT, I THINK THAT IS WHAT I SEE REFLECTED ON THAT FINE WOMAN'S FACE, HER JOY AND HAPPINESS IS CELEBRATING NOT ONLY A NEW HOME, BUT THE EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S REALLY, UH, NOTEWORTHY AND I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE'LL CONTINUE THAT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CISNEROS, UH, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR THE FINE PRESENTATION. 
          ANXIOUS TO ALWAYS HEAR FROM YOU, AND I APPRECIATE, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, ALL THE INFORMATION. 
          I DID HAVE A QUESTION THOUGH. 
          UM, I THINK THERE MAY BE AN ERROR IN IDENTIFYING WHICH, UH, COUNCIL DISTRICT, THE 1102 MOY STREET PROJECT IS IN, THAT LOOKS TO ME TO BE IN DISTRICT C, NOT H. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT IS CORRECTION DISTRICT C. 
          WE WILL MAKE THAT CORRECTION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OH, THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH, DIRECTOR. 
          THAT CONCLUDES THIS PORTION. 
          UNLESS YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL, THAT IS, THAT IS ALL WE HAVE FOR YOU TODAY. 
          IT IS GOOD TO SEE YOU ON THIS. 
          GOOD, UH, TUESDAY MORNING. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          NEXT UP, WE'LL BRING MARK EICHENBAUM, THE MAYOR, SPECIAL ADVISOR ON OUR HOMELESSNESS EFFORTS. 
          GOOD TO SEE YOU. 
          I HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE SITTING BACK THERE. 
          I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOD. 
          IS MARK NOT HERE TODAY? IS EVERYTHING OKAY? I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE SITTING BACK THERE THE WHOLE TIME. 
          FORGIVE ME. 
          IT'S, IT'S OKAY. 
          I'M SHORT , FORGIVE ME. 
          NO, I JUST, THESE ARE OLD PRESCRIPTIONS. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          UH, BEAR WITH ME JUST ONE SECOND WHILE. 
          SURE, SURE, SURE. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF I'M DOING THIS CORRECTLY, SO. 
          OKAY, GREAT. 
          UM, GOOD MORNING. 
          UM, CHAIRWOMAN COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE, UH, IN THE BUILDING AND VIRTUALLY, UH, TODAY, YOU KNOW, IS UNIQUE BECAUSE I'M ENJO. 
          I'M JOINED BY TWO OF OUR REGIONAL, UH, HOMELESS RESPONSE SYSTEMS, CHIEF PARTNERS, UH, IN THAT BEING THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS, UH, THE LEAD AGENCY THAT HELPS REALLY PLAN AND COORDINATE, UM, OUR COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS AS WELL AS OUR HOUSING DEPARTMENT. 
          LOTS OF DEPARTMENTS ARE INVOLVED IN HOMELESSNESS IN THE CITY, BUT OUR CHIEF ONE IS OUR HOUSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. 
          AND I LIKE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF, UH, THE MOST FLAGSHIP, UM, PROGRAMS OF NOT ONLY THE DEPARTMENT, BUT OF THE CITY. 
          UH, FROM THE DIRECTOR BYNUM, UH, TO MELODY RAY, BOTH THEIR STAFFS, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS LIKE JENGA, BUT IT'S NOT JENGA. 
          WHEN YOU START OFF, IT'S LIKE JENGA WHEN YOU'RE LIKE 30 MINUTES INTO IT AND YOU REMOVE ONE CUBE, ONE LITTLE BLOCK, THE WHOLE TOWER TUMBLES. 
          AND THAT'S HOW WE ARE WITH OUR HOUSING DEPARTMENT. 
          THAT'S HOW WE ARE WITH THE COALITION. 
          THAT'S HOW WE ARE WITH YOUR SUPPORT. 
          AND THAT'S HOW WE ARE WITH THE COUNTY. 
          YOU HEARD MELODY SPEAK, SHE SAID SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT AN RFI OR RFPS BEING A TRY ISSUED BETWEEN THE CITY, THE COUNTY, AND THE COALITION. 
          THAT'S UNIQUE, THAT'S REFRESHING. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE CALL COLLABORATION. 
          UM, AND UH, THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO OPERATE A COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM. 
          SO, WITHOUT, UH, ANY DELAY OR MORE DELAY, UH, LET ME GO INTO THIS PRESENTATION. 
          I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A BRIEF OVERVIEW WHERE WE ARE ON OUR HOUSING EFFORTS THROUGH OUR CHIP, OUR COVID HOMELESS HOUSING INITIATIVE. 
          I'LL GO OVER WHERE WE'RE AT WITH ENCAMPMENTS, AND I'LL SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW. 
          UM, REGARDING ONE BEDROOM UNITS. 
          UH, AND OF COURSE, I'LL, UH, BRIEFLY TOUCH UPON THE NAVIGATION CENTER. 
          I'M GONNA GO THROUGH THESE SLIDES PRETTY QUICKLY. 
          UM, BUT, UH, I ALSO WANNA LET YOU KNOW ABOUT THE COUNT DATA. 
          EVERY YEAR WE CONDUCT A, UH, COUNT. 
          UH, THE CITY HELPED FUNDS THE COUNT AND THE COALITION RUNS IT. 
          AND, UM, THIS IS A FEDERAL REQUIREMENT, BUT WAIVERS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC. 
          BUT, UH, OUR REGION DID NOT TAKE UP ON, ON THOSE WAIVERS. 
          SO WE STILL WENT AHEAD. 
          UH, LESS THAN HALF OF THE CITIES AND JURISDICTIONS OUT THERE ACTUALLY DID COUNTS. 
          WE FEEL IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT TO DO THIS. 
          AND SO WE FINALLY HAVE DATA FROM THE 2022 COUNT THAT WAS DONE AT THE END OF THIS JANUARY. 
          AND THIS ONE'S UNIQUE BECAUSE IN 2021, WE MODIFIED THE COUNT BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC. 
          BUT 2022 WAS DONE THE SAME EXACT WAY THAT THE COUNTS HAD BEEN DONE ALL THE YEARS BEFORE. 
          UM, SO HERE ARE THE RESULTS. 
          UM, IT REALLY SHOWS US, UM, THAT BETWEEN 2020 AND 2022 DURING THE PANDEMIC, WE HAD NEARLY A 20% DECREASE IN HOMELESSNESS. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE ORANGE, THAT IS OUR REDUCTION IN SHELTERED POPULATION. 
          AND OF COURSE, WE WERE GONNA EXPERIENCE A REDUC REDUCTION IN OUR SHELTER POPULATION BECAUSE SHELTERS 
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HAD TO INSTITUTE SOCIAL DISTANCING. 
          SO CAPACITIES WERE CUT, UH, AND THERE WAS A DECREASE. 
          BUT WHEN WE SEE A DECREASE IN OUR SHELTER, WE EXPECT TO THEN SEE AN INCREASE IN OUR UNSHELTERED POPULATION, OUR STREET POPULATION. 
          IF THEY DON'T HAVE THE SHELTER BEDS, THEN THEY'RE ON THE STREETS. 
          NOT ONLY DID WE NOT SEE AN INCREASE IN OUR UNSHELTERED OR STREET POPULATION, WE ACTUALLY SAW A DECREASE TOO CLOSE TO AROUND A 10%, UH, REDUCTION IN OUR STREET COUNT, WHICH IS GREAT. 
          OTHER CITIES HAD REDUCTIONS IN THEIR, UH, SHELTERED POPULATIONS, BUT VERY FEW SAW REDUCTIONS LIKE HOUSTON DID, UH, IN THEIR STREET COUNTS. 
          ONE THING TO NOTICE ON HERE IS THAT WE HAD A HUGE REDUCTION FROM WHEN WE STARTED THIS, UH, TO 2017. 
          AND THEN WE HAD OUR FIRST UPTICK. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT THAT BIG BLUE LINE, AND THAT WAS BECAUSE OF HURRICANE HARVEY, AND WE HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET TO PRE HARVEY LEVELS UNTIL NOW. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S ANOTHER GREAT STORY. 
          AND THAT WAS ALL DONE BECAUSE OF OUR COVID HOMELESS HOUSING PROGRAM. 
          HERE'S SOME MORE, BREAKING OUT SOME, UH, MORE DATA. 
          UH, SINCE 2011, WE'VE HAD A 64% DECREASE, UH, IN, UH, HOMELESSNESS. 
          UH, TALKED ABOUT THAT NEARLY 20% REDUCTION DURING THE PANDEMIC. 
          NEARLY A 10% REDUCTION IN OUR STREET COUNT. 
          UM, YOU CAN SEE OF, OF OUR POPULATION IN 2002, UH, THE VAST MAJORITY, NOT THE VAST, THE MAJORITY OF OUR INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS ARE STILL SHELTERED. 
          WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE SHELTERED THAN WE HAVE ON OUR STREETS. 
          UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT, I MEAN, THIS IS A NO-BRAINER HERE. 
          95% OF OUR UNSHELTERED POPULATION IS IN HARRIS COUNTY. 
          UH, OUR REGION INCLUDES MONTGOMERY AND FORT BEND COUNTY, BUT THE MOST OF IT'S IN HARRIS COUNTY. 
          AND IF WE WERE TO DO AN EVEN DEEPER DIVE, THE VAST MAJORITIES WITHIN INSIDE THE CITY LIMITS. 
          SO WHEN WE BREAK OUT OUR POPULATION BY AGE DISTRIBUTION, AND I BRING THIS TO YOU 'CAUSE THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE LOTS OF PROJECTS WILL COME TO YOU SERVING INDIVIDUALS EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS, BUT DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS. 
          AND THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL TO SEE WHERE WE NEED TO BE CONCENTRATING OUR EFFORTS AND RESOURCES. 
          SO OUT OF OUR TOTAL POPULATION, THOSE UNDER 18 IS 5%. 
          OKAY? WOW. 
          UNDER 18. 
          BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, THERE WAS ONLY ONE UNDER 18 ON THE STREETS. 
          DOESN'T EVEN SHOW UP HERE. 
          JUST ONE PERSON UNACCOMPANIED YOUTH UNDER 18, THAT THE VAST MAJORITY OF ALL, THAT 5% IS ACTUALLY SHELTERED AND THEY'RE ALL SHELTERED WITH THEIR FAMILY UNITS. 
          OKAY? SO THE NEXT THING IS, IS WE LOOK AT WHAT'S CALLED YOUNG ADULTS. 
          THAT'S 18 TO 24. 
          UM, AND I'M SORRY, UH, THAT'S THIS BLUE. 
          IT SHOULD BE YELLOW RIGHT HERE. 
          UH, BUT THAT MAKES UP 11% OF OUR POPULATION. 
          YOU CAN SEE ONLY TWO. 
          IT MAKES UP ONLY 2% OF OUR STREET POPULATION. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          THE REST OF IT ARE IN OUR SHELTERED POPULATION. 
          OKAY? SO WHO IS ON THE STREETS? WHO ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE? THEY ARE ALL OVER 24, AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF 'EM ARE SINGLE INDIVIDUALS. 
          AND THE VAST, AND IF YOU WERE NARROW IT DOWN EVEN MORE, WHILE THERE'S, THERE'S A GOOD NUMBER OF FEMALES, THEY'RE MOSTLY MALE. 
          SO SINGLE ADULT MALES, UH, IS WHO IS ARE UNSHELTERED. 
          AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR TOTAL POPULATION, AROUND 15%, JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE IS ACTUALLY UNDER 24. 
          AND MOST OF THEM ARE SHELTERED. 
          UM, SO, UM, OF THOSE COUNTED 20% WERE EXPERIENCING CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS. 
          ONCE AGAIN, THAT MEANS THEY WERE ON THE STREETS FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND THEY HAVE A DISABILITY. 
          THOSE ARE YOUR MOST, UH, THOSE ARE YOUR TYPICALLY YOUR NON ABLE BODIED INDIVIDUALS. 
          THOSE ARE YOUR HIGH COST UTILIZERS OR YOUR FREQUENT FLYERS. 
          10% WERE VETERANS. 
          WE LOVE SEEING THAT. 
          UH, WE HAD BROUGHT DOWN, UH, THE VETERAN, UH, POPULATION TO SOME OF THE LOWEST NUMBERS WE'VE EVER SEEN, AND 15% OF THEM WERE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS. THE BIG THING I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT, 'CAUSE HOUSTON IS ON THE FRONT LINES OF THIS BECAUSE OF HURRICANES IN THE PAST, IS THAT NEARLY 30% OF OUR UNSHELTERED POPULATION IS HOMELESS BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC OR NATURAL DISASTERS. 
          SO 30% OF THE FOLKS ON THE STREETS ARE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF CRISES. 
          NOW, ABOUT HALF OF THOSE FOLKS WERE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF NATURAL DISASTERS, AND HALF OF THOSE FOLKS WERE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF, UH, BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC. 
          WHEN WE LOOK AT THOSE THAT WERE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF NATURAL DISASTERS, THE VAST MAJORITY OF 'EM, 90% STILL BECAUSE OF HURRICANE HARVEY. 
          SO WHAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS IS IN 2018, 19% OF OUR UNSHELTERED POPULATION WERE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF HARVEY 2021, STILL 17, 20, 22, STILL 13%. 
          THIS IS FOUR YEARS AFTER THE STORM, AND WE STILL HAVE 13%. 
          FOLKS ON OUR STREETS ARE HOMELESS BECAUSE OF THE, UH, CRISIS, BECAUSE OF THE STORM. 
          SO WHAT WE'VE LEARNED FROM THIS IS THAT THE CRISIS, THE IMPACT OF A CRISIS DOESN'T JUST HAPPEN RIGHT AFTER THE CRISIS. 
          AND THERE'S RESIDUAL IMPACT THAT 
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GOES ON YEARS WELL AFTER THAT CRISIS. 
          BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS, IS THAT PERSON MIGHT HAVE RAN THROUGH THEIR SAVINGS TO STAY AFLOAT RIGHT AFTER THE CRISIS. 
          SO WHEN THAT MEDICAL EMERGENCY OR BROKEN CAR OR FAMILY EMERGENCY OR JOB, YOU KNOW, HAP JOB ISSUE THAT HAPPENS THREE YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO TAP INTO BECAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY USED IT ALL UP BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE OF THAT STORM. 
          SO THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR PANDEMIC PLANNING BECAUSE WE KNOW WE, WE JUST CAN'T WIPE OUR HANDS CLEAN. 
          WE'RE GONNA BE SEEING THE IMPACTS, ESPECIALLY ON, ON, YOU KNOW, THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY AND THOSE FACING HOUSING INSTABILITY FOR YEARS TO COME. 
          UM, SO, UM, AND HERE'S SOME NUMBERS ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, UH, COURTESY OF THE COALITION. 
          UM, AND YOU'LL SEE HERE THE UNSHELTERED NUMBERS HAVE FALLEN SUBSTANTIALLY. 
          AND OVERALL NUMBERS OF STILL A MAJOR, MAJOR ISSUE AND STILL RESOURCES ARE NEEDED. 
          BUT WE'VE COME A LONG WAY FROM WHERE WE WERE BACK IN 2011 THROUGH 2014. 
          UM, OVERALL SINCE 2011, YOU HERE'S THESE, UH, DECREASES ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE 64% ON OVERALL HOMELESSNESS, BIG REDUCTIONS IN CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS, FAMILY HOMELESSNESS, AND VETERAN HOMELESSNESS. 
          WE CURRENTLY HAVE AROUND 8,500 INDIVIDUALS CURRENTLY HOUSED THROUGH OUR COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS. 
          SINCE, UH, MAYOR TURNER'S, UH, ADMINISTRATION BEGAN, YOU CAN STILL SEE SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTIONS. 
          EVERYBODY, A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE THINK, OH, THIS IS JUST THE ADMINISTRATION BEFORE. 
          NOW. 
          ADMINISTRATION BEFORE DID AMAZING WORK. 
          IT HELPED JUMPSTART EVERYTHING. 
          THE SYSTEM WAS DOING AMAZING WORK. 
          KEEPING IT GOING CAN SOMETIMES BE THE HARD PART. 
          AND WE'VE NOT ONLY SEEN IT, UH, THE SUCCESS KEEPING GOING. 
          WE'VE SEEN IT, YOU KNOW, THE CITY DOUBLE DOWN ON ITS SUPPORT, UH, TO MAKE SURE. 
          UH, I WILL SAY THAT THIS IS KIND OF LIKE LOSING WEIGHT. 
          AND WHEN YOU START DIETING THOSE FIRST POUNDS, THOSE ARE EASY. 
          BUT ONCE YOU LOSE THAT WEIGHT, THEN THOSE NEXT POUNDS TO LOSE GET REALLY DIFFICULT, MORE CHALLENGING. 
          SAME THING HERE. 
          SO WE'VE HAD A HUGE REDUCTION, 64%, BUT FOR US TO REDUCE IT EVEN MORE, IT TAKES MORE RESOURCES, MORE DEDICATION, AND MORE TIME. 
          IT'S MORE DIFFICULT THAN WHEN IT WAS WITH THE LOW HANGING FRUIT WHEN WE WERE JUST STARTING. 
          SO THE REASON FOR ALL OF THIS WAS, IS, WAS AND IS BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNITY COVID HOMELESS HOUSING PROGRAM. 
          THAT IS A MOUTHFUL. 
          WE LOVE OUR ACRONYMS IN GOVERNMENT, UH, AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS THE CHIP PROGRAM. 
          REMEMBER, IT WAS NOT LOOKING GOOD. 
          WE, WE KNEW WE NEEDED TO HOUSE PEOPLE. 
          WE KNEW WE NEEDED TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF OUR SHELTERS AND OFF OUR STREETS. 
          WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY TO DO SO. 
          AND THEN THE PANDEMIC DOLLARS CAME FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 
          UH, A LOT OF DOLLARS CAME FROM, UH, THROUGH OUR OWN, UH, CR CRF DOLLARS AND ARPA DOLLARS. 
          WE'VE HAD A, A GREAT AMOUNT OF RESOURCES INVESTED THROUGH OUR HOUSING DEPARTMENT. 
          UH, AS A REMINDER, WE STARTED OFF WITH A TWO YEAR GOAL TO HOUSE 5,000 INDIVIDUALS. 
          WE'RE WELL OVER 8,000 IN THE FIRST 18 MONTHS. 
          WE THEN, UH, DOUBLED DOWN AND INSTEAD A, UM, A PHASE TWO OF A HUNDRED MILLION, WHICH WAS ANNOUNCED IN JANUARY BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY AND THE STATE, BRINGING IT TO $165 MILLION. 
          UM, ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS PRIMARILY ALL FEDERAL FUNDS PAYING FOR THIS, UH, JOINTS UM, PROGRAM BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY. 
          IT'S REALLY USING HOUSING AS OUR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL RESPONSE. 
          UM, SO OVERALL, HERE'S OUR NUMBERS. 
          WE ARE NOW AT OVER 9,700 INDIVIDUALS HOUSED BY JUNE. 
          SO THIS IS HUGE. 
          THAT RED LINE IS WHERE WE WOULD BE WITHOUT THESE DOLLARS, AND WITHOUT THIS PROGRAM, IT WOULD NOT. 
          SO YOU TAKE THAT DELTA THAT'S THERE AND YOU PUT ALL THOSE PEOPLE ON THE STREETS BECAUSE THERE IS NO SHELTER, UH, THAT'S NOT A GOOD PICTURE. 
          SO, UH, WE'VE BEEN REALLY, REALLY, REALLY FORTUNATE AND IT'S BEEN THE AMAZING WORK OF OVER THE A HUNDRED PARTNERS PART OF THE WAY HOME. 
          SO, AS A QUICK REMINDER, THIS PROGRAM HAS THREE COMPONENTS. 
          PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, LONG-TERM HOUSING, A HIGHER LEVEL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUR CHRONICALLY HOMELESS, YOUR MOST VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS. 
          RAPID REHOUSING GETS UP TO A YEAR. 
          FOLKS HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT CHAIN TWO YEARS FOR CERTAIN FOLKS, BUT NOT EVERYBODY JUST GETS HOUSING. 
          IT REALLY GETS TAILORED TO THIS PERSON'S SPECIFIC NEEDS. 
          RAPID REHOUSING IS SHORT TERM ASSISTANCE. 
          YOU STILL GET CASE MANAGEMENT, BUT A LOWER LEVEL OF SUPPORTS, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT AS NEEDED AS MUCH IN DIVERSION, IS OUR FIRST FORAY INTO PREVENTION WORK, KEEPING PEOPLE FROM BEING ON THE STREETS, KEEPING PEOPLE FROM KNOCKING ON THE DOORS OF THE SHELTER. 
          UM, SO HERE'S THE PERMIT. 
          SUPPORTIVE HOUSING PLACEMENTS. 
          UH, YOU CAN SEE, UH, WELL ABOVE WHERE WE WOULD BE WITHOUT THE DOLLARS. 
          UH, RAPID REHOUSING IS EVEN A BIGGER TAIL. 
          I MEAN, THIS IS HUGE OVER, UH, OVER 30, ALMOST 3,700 INDIVIDUALS. 
          AND THEN DIVERSION. 
          DIVERSION IS BIG. 
          NOW, SOME FOLKS MIGHT SAY, WELL, YOUR DIVERSION NUMBERS ARE PADDING EVERYTHING. 
          YOU HAVEN'T DONE THAT IN THE PAST. 
          BUT EVEN WHEN WE LOOK AT THINGS, SO JUST APPLES TO APPLES, AND I'LL HAVE A SLIDE IN JUST A SECOND. 
          IT STILL SHOWS OUR HOUSING NUMBERS OF RAPID 
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REHOUSING AND PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ARE STILL HIGHER THAN WHAT THEY'VE BEEN IN IN THE YEARS PROCEEDING. 
          UH, THESE FUNDS IN THIS PROGRAM, HERE ARE THE MONTHLY HOUSING PLACEMENT NUMBERS. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THIS IS TRUE. 
          THAT GREEN, THAT'S SO HIGH, THAT'S THE DIVERSION FUNDING. 
          SO THAT IS TRUE. 
          I MEAN, DIVERSION NUMBERS ARE REALLY, REALLY HIGH. 
          UH, WHEN WE LOOK DOWN AT THE BLUE, THAT'S PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. 
          WE DIPPED WAY DOWN UP TO 29 PEOPLE IN DECEMBER. 
          WE'VE GONE BACK UP, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT IN JUST A SECOND. 
          BUT OUR RAPID REHOUSING NUMBERS ARE, ARE, ARE DOWN TWO. 
          UH, LOOK, WE WERE UP TO OVER 300 IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR, AND WE'RE NOW DOWN TO FORTIES AND FIFTIES. 
          SOME OF THAT'S BY DESIGN, BUT SOME OF THAT IS THE SHORTAGE OF UNITS THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT. 
          HERE ARE THE MONTHLY HOUSING PLACEMENTS. 
          WHEN WE TAKE DIVERSION OUT OF IT, LET'S JUST LOOK AT BREAD AND BUTTER HOUSING, PERMANENT SPORT OF HOUSING AND RAPID REHOUSING. 
          UM, AND YOU CAN SEE, UH, FROM THE HIGHS THAT WE WERE IN, UH, JUST, UM, A YEAR AGO, WE'RE ABOUT A THIRD LESS FROM WHERE WE WERE A YEAR AGO. 
          UM, AND WE'RE ABOUT ALMOST, ALMOST 50% LESS FROM THE HIGH THAT WE HAD IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR. 
          UM, SO, UM, HERE'S SOME, UH, PERMANENT HOUSING ONE, AND THIS IS JUST THE PERMANENT HOUSING. 
          HOLD ON, MARK, IF I CAN INTERRUPT. 
          YES. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          VICE CHAIR HAS BEEN IN THE QUEUE FOR A QUESTION. 
          OH, OR COMMENT. 
          I APOLOGIZE. 
          THAT'S IF YOU'D LIKE TO WAIT, I CAN WAIT, BUT, UH, SURE. 
          I DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS PERTAINING TO A PARTICULAR SLOT. 
          WELL, I GUESS IT'S GONNA BE A QUESTION MR. ACHENBAUM, ABOUT, UM, JUST THE METHODOLOGY. 
          I'M REALLY PLEASED TO SEE HOW CONFIDENT YOU ARE IN THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY, THE CENSUS SURVEY. 
          AT SOME POINT IN YOUR PRESENTATION, LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THE METHODOLOGY AND HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT IT. 
          COULD IT BE EVEN MORE ACCURATE? UM, ARE THERE WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN HELP YOU IMPROVE ON THAT? FOR SURE. 
          THAT LINE OF THINKING. 
          NO, I, AND I APPRECIATE THAT, AND I'LL DEFINITELY HAVE THE COALITION COME UP HERE AS WELL. 
          UM, AND, UM, AND YOU KNOW, WHAT'S UNIQUE ABOUT THE METHODOLOGY, AND, UH, I'LL TAKE A MOMENT TO GO BACK TO THAT COUNT, IS THAT, UM, UH, IS IT PERFECT? NO. 
          ARE WE COUNTING EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT WE KNOW? ARE WE GONNA MISS SOME PEOPLE? YES. 
          BUT THE REALITY IS, IS THAT WITH OVER 400 VOLUNTEERS SPENDING THREE DAYS, UM, IT'S BEING DONE THE SAME WAY THAT IT'S BEEN DONE IN THE PAST. 
          AND SO IT'S REALLY GOOD TO SEE TRENDS OVER TIME AND TO SEE IF WE'RE ON THE RIGHT PATH OR IF WE'RE NOT ON THE RIGHT PATH. 
          ARE WE HAVING ISSUES SOMEWHERE? THAT'S WHAT IT'S REALLY, REALLY HELPFUL FOR. 
          DEFINITELY GO INTO THAT. 
          OUR HOUSING NUMBERS, UH, JUST FOR ANYBODY THAT'S LISTENING, THOSE ARE BASED ON, UH, NO SURVEYING OR OR COUNTING. 
          THESE ARE NUMBERS OF, UH, HARD NUMBERS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING HOUSED THROUGH OUR COLLECTIVE, UH, OUR COORDINATED SYSTEM. 
          THIS ONE RIGHT HERE IS THE MONTHLY HOUSING PLACEMENTS, INCLUDING ALL THREE COMPONENTS THAT I JUST WENT OVER WITH THE 30% DECREASE FROM WHERE WE WERE A YEAR AGO. 
          BUT THIS IS WHEN WE'RE JUST, LOOK, WE'RE TAKING DIVERSION OUT, AND THIS IS JUST THE HOUSING PIECES. 
          AND NOW THIS PAINTS A DIFFERENT PICTURE BECAUSE NOW THIS PAINTS THAT WE'RE AT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE AT 70% DECREASE FROM WHERE WE WERE IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR. 
          UM, AND THAT IS BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF UNITS. 
          UM, HERE'S THAT SLIDE I WAS TRYING TO REFERENCE TO. 
          SO WHEN THE, UM, ON THIS LEFT SIDE IS THE TOTAL INDIVIDUALS HOUSED, INCLUDING DIVERSION COMPARED TO THE YEARS, UH, BEFORE WE STARTED THE PROGRAM, AND NOW WE TAKE OUT THE DIVERSION AND WE'RE JUST DOING THE PERMANENT HOUSING PIECES, AND YOU CAN STILL, STILL SEE IT'S STILL, UH, DRAMATICALLY HIGHER. 
          AND ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE THIS TREMENDOUS SYSTEM OF A HUNDRED AGENCIES ALL WORKING TOGETHER TO HOUSE REALLY VULNERABLE PEOPLE. 
          MOST CITIES DO NOT HAVE THAT SYSTEM. 
          WHAT THAT SYSTEM NEEDS IS GAS TO MAKE IT RUN, TO MAKE THAT ENGINE RUN. 
          AND THE GAS HERE IS FINANCIAL RESOURCES. 
          UH, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FILL UP THE TANK OF THAT SYSTEM. 
          IT CAN RUN. 
          UM, BUT ONCE YOU PRESS THE ACCELERATOR, YOU GOTTA KEEP YOUR FOOT DOWN. 
          THE MINUTE YOU, YOU YOU LET OFF, THAT'S WHEN THINGS CAN REGRESS. 
          UM, HERE'S SOME DATA BY RACE. 
          UM, YOU CAN SEE EACH THREE OF THE COMPONENTS OF THE SYSTEM ARE SERVING HEAVILY SERVING INDIVIDUALS OF COLOR. 
          AND THAT'S BY DESIGN. 
          WHY DO I SAY THAT? BY DESIGN? BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT, UH, RELATIONSHIP OF THE MAKEUP OF OUR HOMELESS POPULATION TO OUR CITY POPULATION, YOU CAN SEE THAT INDIVIDUALS OF COLOR, UH, UH, THAT IT'S, IT'S NOT EQUITABLE BECAUSE INDIVIDUALS OF COLOR MAKE UP THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HOMELESS. 
          UH, AND SO, UH, WHILE OUR HOMELESS SYSTEM RESPONSE SYSTEM DID NOT CREATE THIS INEQUITY, IT IS OUR DUTY TO RESPOND TO IT. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE COVID HOMELESS HOUSING PROGRAM IS RESPONDING TO IT AND IS SIGNIFICANTLY SERVING INDIVIDUALS, UH, OF COLOR, UH, TO TRY THEIR RIGHT. 
          UH, THE SHIP, UH, PHASE TWO THAT I BRIEFLY WALKED OVER, THIS IS, UH, THIS IS UNIQUE. 
          A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. 
          THESE ARE FEDERAL FUNDS THAT HAVE TO BE USED IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. 
          THE CLOCK IS TICKING. 
          WE ALSO GET A 1000 EMERGENCY HOUSING VOUCHERS AND MAKE IT EVEN MORE. 
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ONCE AGAIN, THE CLOCK IS TICKING. 
          SO THIS IS A REALLY UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO KEEP THAT ENGINE TANK FULL, BUT WE HAVE TO USE THESE DOLLARS VERY QUICKLY. 
          ALL OF THIS IS ALLOWING US TO DO OUR ENCAMPMENT DECOMMISSIONING THROUGH HOUSING PROGRAM. 
          WE HAD ALWAYS BEEN TALKED ABOUT BEFORE. 
          WE KNOW THERE'S ENCAMPMENTS THERE. 
          WE DON'T BELIEVE ENCAMPMENTS ARE GOOD. 
          UH, WE DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT ENCAMPMENTS. 
          WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE MONEY TO DO ANYTHING. 
          NOW WE DO. 
          UH, AND IT'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL THUS FAR. 
          UM, AND, UM, HERE RIGHT NOW IS THE LIST. 
          SO, UH, THUS FAR THERE'S BEEN 57 ENCAMPMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN DECOMMISSIONED ALL ACROSS THE CITY. 
          UH, AND THESE ENCAMPMENTS HAD OVER 343 INDIVIDUALS IN THEM, WITH OVER 307 INDIVIDUALS HOUSED OF THAT 267 WERE HOUSED THROUGH THE HOMELESS SYSTEM. 
          SO THIS IS HUGE. 
          NOW, WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? NOW, I'M TALKING ABOUT HOUSING PEOPLE OUT IN ENCAMPMENTS, BECAUSE WHEN YOU DON'T HOUSE SOMEBODY OUT IN ENCAMPMENT, THEY JUST GO ONTO THE NEXT BLOCK, OR THEY GO AND HIDE UNTIL FOLKS LEAVE AND THEY COME RIGHT BACK. 
          OR WE JUST PUSH 'EM FURTHER INTO NEIGHBORHOODS. 
          SO IT DOESN'T SOLVE THE ISSUE. 
          WE'RE STILL RUNNING AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITH THEIR HEAD CUT OFF CLEANING UP. 
          IT'S A CYCLE. 
          THE POLICE ARE STILL RESPONDING EVERY OTHER WEEK. 
          IT'S A CYCLE WITH NO END IN SIGHT. 
          WHEN WE CAN TAKE FOLKS OFF THE STREETS TO WHERE WE'RE NOT HAVING TO JUST, YOU KNOW, RUN AROUND AND PLAY A GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE, UH, THEN, UH, IT'S NOT ONLY BEST FOR THEM, IT'S BEST FOR OUR CITY. 
          IT'S BEST FOR OUR COMMUNITIES, AND IT'S FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE. 
          UM, SO AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT, UM, WE CAN CLOSE ENCAMPMENTS ALL WE WANT, BUT THAT, BUT THEY'LL JUST COME RIGHT BACK IF THE PERSON'S STILL ON THE STREETS. 
          UM, AND SO WE WANNA GET PEOPLE OFF THE STREETS. 
          THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING IT. 
          IT JUST SO HAPPENS THE MOST COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE, ACTUALLY IN THIS CASE, IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE RESPONSE. 
          AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE WHY WE'RE DOING IT. 
          UM, THERE'S OTHER CITIES. 
          ALL THE TIME THOUGH, I WILL HEAR POLICE SAY, WELL, WE CLOSED DOWN THIS ENCAMPMENT, AND GEEZ, ANOTHER ONE JUST POPPED UP DOWN THE STREET. 
          IT'S THE SAME ENCAMPMENT, IT'S THE SAME PEOPLE. 
          OR, YOU KNOW, BIG CITIES ON THE EAST COAST CLOSE AN ENCAMPMENT. 
          AND THEY SAY, OH, OUT OF 500 PEOPLE, WE GOT FOUR TO BE WILLING TO GO TO A SHELTER. 
          WELL, WHERE ARE THE REST? THEY'RE STILL ON THE STREETS. 
          BUT WHEN WE OFFER HOUSING, WE GET 90% OF THE FOLKS SAYING YES TO IT, AND WE CAN GET THEM IMMEDIATELY OFF THE STREETS. 
          THERE'S AMAZING WORK THAT'S BEING DONE. 
          UH, ONCE AGAIN, FUNDED BY OUR HOUSING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, UH, FUNDED WITH THE COUNTY, BEING COORDINATED BY OUR COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS, AND ALSO WITH AMAZING WORK FROM SEARCH HOMELESS SERVICES AND IN A ARRAY OF OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. 
          SO HERE WE ARE. 
          HERE'S THE DECOMMISSIONING. 
          THROUGH THE YEARS, YOU CAN SEE HUGE INCREASES. 
          WHY? BECAUSE THE MONEY IS THERE. 
          THAT'S THE GAME CHANGER. 
          THAT'S THE GAME. 
          AND WE WANNA KEEP THESE NUMBERS UP. 
          NOW, I WILL SAY THIS, GOING BACK TO THIS, WE HAVE NOT DONE ANY ENCAMPMENTS FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS. 
          AND THE REASON IS, IS BECAUSE THE NAVIGATION CENTER IS A HUGE PIECE OF THIS. 
          OUR CURRENT TEMPORARY NAVIGATION CENTER IS GOING TO BE CLOSING AT THE END OF NEXT MONTH. 
          AND SO WE'RE NOT PUTTING NEW, NEW PEOPLE IN THERE BECAUSE WE WANNA HOUSE EVERYBODY OUT OF IT. 
          SO WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT JENSEN HOUSING NAVIGATION CENTER TODAY, THE OPERATIONS WAS DISCUSSED. 
          HAVING THAT ONLINE IS GONNA BE HUGE BECAUSE THAT WILL BE ABLE TO, WE'LL BE ABLE TO START DECOMMISSIONING ENCAMPMENTS AGAIN. 
          SO, UH, HERE'S SOME RECENT PHOTOS. 
          THESE ARE THE MOST TWO RECENT ONES. 
          THIS IS THE SPUR. 
          THIS IS THE SPUR OFF OF RICHMOND, RIGHT HERE IN MIDTOWN. 
          BEFORE AND AFTER. 
          HERE'S THE SPUR AT WESTHEIMER, BEFORE AND AFTER. 
          WHERE DID THESE FOLKS GO? ARE THEY IN JAIL? NO. 
          ARE THEY ON THE NEXT BLOCK? NO. 
          ARE THEY FURTHER INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD? NO, THEY'RE HOUSED. 
          THAT'S WHERE FOLKS ARE. 
          AND ONCE AGAIN, OUR GOAL HERE ARE FIRST PHASE IS STREET LEVEL OF MAJOR THOROUGHFARES. 
          WE GOT IT. 
          THIS IS A BIG ISSUE. 
          WE GOTTA TAKE IT DOWN TO DIGESTIBLE PIECES WHEN WE GET OUR HANDS AROUND THIS FULLY. 
          THEN WE'LL GO INTO THE BAYOU. 
          WE'LL GO INTO ALL THE SMALL STREETS AND ALL THESE AREAS. 
          OUR GOAL HERE IS TO MAKE THIS MAP COMPLETELY GREEN FOR THE REGION. 
          AND WE SHARE THIS WITH THE COUNTY. 
          SO IT'S A GIVE AND TAKE. 
          SOMETIMES WE'RE DOING UNINCORPORATED. 
          SOMETIMES WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO THE CITY, BUT BOTH ARE FUNDING IT. 
          UM, AND HERE'S THE, THIS IS WHERE THE NAVIGATION CENTER COMES IN. 
          SO HERE'S YOUR ENCAMPMENT ON DAY ONE. 
          AND THEN ALL THOSE INDIVIDUALS GET MOVED TO A HOUSING NAVIGATION CENTER. 
          THE ENCAMPMENT CAN IS EMPTY AND CAN BE ENCLOSED USING THREE TO FIVE DAYS. 
          AND THEN WE HOUSE ALL THOSE PEOPLE, PLACE THOSE PEOPLE AT THE HOUSING NAVIGATION. 
          WE THEN PLACE THEM AND HOUSE THEM ONE BY ONE INTO PERMANENT HOUSING AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE. 
          THAT'S WHAT'S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT THE HOUSING NAVIGATION CENTER, IS WHILE THOSE PEOPLE ARE THERE, THEY'RE WORKING WITH THEIR CASE MANAGERS ON THEIR HOUSING. 
          IT'S A CONSISTENT LOCATION IN A STABLE AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT. 
          AND IT REALLY HELPS, UH, IMPROVE THE EFFORTS TO BE ABLE TO QUICKLY HOUSE THEM. 
          UM, 
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TO JUST LET YOU KNOW, THROUGH AMAZING WORK OF RAY AND HIS TEAM AS WELL AS THE COALITION, UH, AND THE GENERAL CONTRACTORS. 
          UM, CONSTRUCTION IS RELATIVELY STILL ON PACE AND ON SCHEDULE FOR THE NAVIGATION CENTER. 
          AND IT'S OUR HOPE THAT IT WILL, AND IT'S OUR EXPECTATION THAT IT WILL TENTATIVELY OPEN, UH, IN SEPTEMBER. 
          UH, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WILL OCCUR BEFOREHAND AND WHILE ONGOING FOR, YOU KNOW, UH, BECAUSE, UH, THIS IS, UH, WE WANT THIS TO BE, UH, A GREAT PROJECT THAT GIVES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, NOT ONLY THAT'S SERVING, UH, BUT THAT IT'S LOCATED WITHIN AS WELL. 
          AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU, UH, MENTIONED THAT POINT. 
          'CAUSE COUNCIL MEMBER JACKSON IS NOT HERE, AND I KNOW SHE WOULD RAISE THE POINT ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S ENGAGEMENT. 
          SURE. 
          AND I KNOW Y'ALL STARTED BEFORE THE ITEM EVEN CAME BEFORE, UM, COUNCIL. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, TALKING WITH THE COMMUNITY EVEN LONG BEFORE, UH, MY ELECTION TO THE SEAT, UM, ENGAGING WITH THEM, LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THAT AND THE SERVICES PROVIDED. 
          SO I KNOW THAT SHE WOULD BE EXCITED TO HEAR THAT. 
          AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU ERRED TO QUESTIONS AND MADE THE CONNECTION BETWEEN, UM, SUN SETTING, THE TEMPORARY NAVIGATION CENTER AND REALLY GIVING CONTEXT TO WHY THOSE NUMBERS, WHY THERE MIGHT BE A TEMPORARY PAUSE. 
          'CAUSE WE ARE ANTICIPATING SOME DEEP IMPACT WITH THE JENSEN LOCATION. 
          UM, WE DO HAVE TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS IN QUEUE FOR YOU. 
          COUNCIL MEMBERS, CISNEROS, AND THEN CAYMAN. 
          UM, THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          UM, MARK, THANK YOU. 
          UH, CONGRATULATIONS AND, AND A HUGE BIG THANK YOU ON, ON THE GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT YOU'RE ACHIEVING. 
          UM, UH, I UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF THE HOUSING NAVIGATION CENTERS AND, AND I'M GLAD WE'RE, WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS ON THIS. 
          UM, I DID HAVE A QUESTION THOUGH, BECAUSE I, I THINK IT WAS AN ISSUE, UM, OCCASIONALLY, BUT I WANTED TO JUST, IF YOU CAN SPEAK TO IT, YOU KNOW, ONCE, UM, UH, ENCAMPMENTS HAVE BEEN DECOMMISSIONED, IT IS REALLY, REALLY, UM, IMPORTANT THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT, UM, MAKE SURE THEY STAY THAT WAY. 
          AND, AND I THINK THAT, THAT THEY, THEY, IT, IT DOESN'T ALWAYS, UM, GO WELL, YOU KNOW, IF THEY, IF THEY DON'T, DON'T SHOW UP AND MAKE SURE THEY'RE NOT COMING, YOU KNOW, RE RE POPULATING, YOU KNOW, A A FORMER ENCAMPMENT. 
          CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT OR, YOU KNOW, UM, AND, AND JUST, YOU KNOW, TELL US MORE ABOUT HOW THAT, THAT PART OF IT'S GOING. 
          SURE. 
          UH, WELL FIRST, UH, UH, THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENTS ON BEHALF OF OUR ENTIRE TEAM THAT'S HERE TODAY. 
          'CAUSE IT'S A TEAM EFFORT. 
          UH, THE SECOND THING IS, IS YOU ARE RIGHT. 
          UH, ONCE AN ENCAMPMENT IS DECOMMISSIONED, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE DO NOT ALLOW THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES TO RESURRECT AT THAT SITE. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHEN IT TURNS INTO AN ENFORCEMENT ISSUE, HIRED PRIMARILY BY HPTS DRT TEAM, DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE TEAM, ESPECIALLY TRAINED TO DEAL WITH VULNERABLE INDIVIDUALS. 
          UM, IT'S A, UM, IT'S A WORK IN PROGRESS COUNCILWOMAN. 
          UM, AND, UH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WILL JUST HAVE TO WORK ON WITH YOUR OFFICES, WITH THE ADMINISTRATION, UH, WITH HPD, UH, AND THE COMMUNITY, UH, TO CONSISTENTLY REMIND AND MODIFY AS NEEDED. 
          UH, BECAUSE IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE, THE PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES DON'T RESURRECT AT THOSE LOCATIONS. 
          SO, UH, SOMETIMES, UH, WE MEET WEEKLY, UH, TO COORDINATE. 
          UH, BUT THAT COORDINATION, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S LOTS OF OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO ENHANCE IT AND OPPORTUNITY TO GET BETTER ON, ON HOW WE HOLISTICALLY, UH, RESPOND AND, AND DO ENFORCEMENT. 
          UH, AND LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING ON THAT WITH YOU AND HPD IN THE FUTURE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND HOPEFUL. 
          WELL, ANY, ANY, ANY GUIDANCE YOU HAVE FOR US TO HELP YOU WITH THAT PIECE, YOU KNOW, I, I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT AND WE CAN GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON, UM, TO ALL COUNSEL OFFICES. 
          UM, I THINK WE'LL BE HELPFUL ANY WAY THAT WE CAN, UM, COUNCIL OFFICES CAN SUPPORT THIS EFFORT. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER CAYMAN. 
          THANK YOU, UH, MADAM CHAIR. 
          AND, UH, MARK, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE EFFORTS. 
          I, I, I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP, UM, THE DECOMMISSIONING AT THE SPUR. 
          UM, THAT WAS A, UM, VERY HEAVY LIFT, A LARGE EFFORT. 
          BUT AGAIN, THE WAY IN WHICH, UM, THE CITY UNDER, UNDER YOUR DIRECTION, UNDER THE MAYOR'S LEADERSHIP, UH, HAS DONE SO, NOT JUST IN A COMPASSIONATE WAY, BUT IN AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF GETTING FOLKS HOUSED, OF REDUCING, UM, THE HEALTH RISKS IN THAT AREA. 
          UM, I, I JUST WANNA COMMEND YOU AND GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE. 
          I KNOW FOR DISTRICT C, UM, THAT WORK DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED. 
          UM, AND WE STAND READY TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT IN ANY WAY THAT WE CAN, INCLUDING, UM, ADDRESSING THE HOUSING UNIT CRISIS AND WHATEVER WE CAN DO AND WHATEVER COUNCIL CAN DO TO THAT END, UM, WE STAND READY TO ASSIST. 
          BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU, UM, TO YOU, YOUR TEAM, EVERYONE INVOLVED. 
          UH, WITH THAT SPURRED DECOMMISSIONING, THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN. 
          WE HAVE ONE OTHER, UM, SPEAKER IN THE QUEUE. 
          UM, MR. JOHN MOSS WITH COUNCIL MEMBER 
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KNOX'S OFFICE. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          GOOD MORNING. 
          A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS ON YOUR SLIDE. 
          DECOMMISSION ENCAMPMENTS. 
          MM-HMM . 
          YOU HAVE REFUSED. 
          WHAT DOES, REFUSED MEAN AND WHAT HAPPENS WITH THOSE FOLKS? SO, REFUSE MEANS THAT WHEN THEY ARE OFFERED THE OP, UH, WHEN THEY'RE OFFERED HOUSING, UM, THEY SAY NOT INTERESTED. 
          UM, AND SO, SO THEN WHAT HAPPENS? SO, UH, THEY'RE NOTIFIED THAT, UH, THEY CAN NO LONGER BE AT THAT LOCATION, BEGINNING AT A, UH, THEY CAN NO LONGER EXCUSE ME, IN CAMP AT THAT, UH, WHICH IS A LEGAL TERM, UH, WHICH HAVING A STRUCTURE OR TOO MANY PERSONAL ITEMS AT THAT LOCATION, AT A CERTAIN, AT A CERTAIN DATE AND A CERTAIN TIME, AND THEY MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW IF THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS, IS THAT, UH, AT IF THEY DO REFUSE, UH, WE JUST DON'T SHUT THE DOOR AND WALK AWAY. 
          OUTREACH TEAMS CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THAT INDIVIDUAL, UH, DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP, AND HOPING THAT ONE DAY THEY DO SAY YES, AND THEY CAN GET THEM COMPLETELY OFF THE STREETS. 
          SO ONCE AGAIN, THEY DON'T GET ON CYCLING THROUGH OUR SYS, OUR, OUR OTHER SYSTEMS. AND FOR THE PUBLIC, WHAT HAPPENS? TELL, GO TELL US THE PROCEDURES OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR OFFICE GETS NOTIFIED, EITHER BY CONSTITUENTS OR A COUNCIL OFFICE, THAT THERE'S A GROUP OF FOLKS THAT ARE IN, CAMPED IN A CERTAIN LOCATION. 
          YEAH. 
          HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE? I SEE ONE OF YOUR SLIDES, FOUR TO EIGHT WEEKS. 
          TELL US KIND OF WHAT HAPPENS. 
          WALK US THROUGH SO THAT THE PUBLIC KNOWS THE EXPECTATION. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS HELPFUL WHEN THE PUBLIC NOTIFIES US. 
          UH, CHANCES ARE, UH, WE ALREADY DO KNOW ABOUT THE LOCATIONS, WHY? BECAUSE WE GET LOCATIONS ADDED FROM, UH, AN ARRAY OF HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAMS, AS WELL AS HPD, AS WELL AS THE HPD HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM. 
          BUT WE WELCOME THE PUBLIC LETTING US KNOW, AND WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT IT'S ON THE LIST. 
          THE LOCATION GETS ADDED TO A LIST. 
          UH, I APOLOGIZE, I DON'T HAVE THE SLIDE RIGHT NOW, BUT THERE'S A BEVY OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, WELL OVER 30 DIFFERENT ELEMENTS THAT COME INTO EVOLVE FOR US. 
          UM, KIND OF, UH, TO EVALUATE THE SITE SO THAT WE CAN PUT IT ON A PRIORITY LI UH, UH, PRIORITIZED LIST. 
          AND SO THAT'S THE, THE, HOW LONG IT'S BEEN AROUND, UH, THE SIZE OF THE ENCAMPMENT, THE AMOUNT OF, UH, POLICE CALLS OR FIRST RESPONDERS CALLS, VULNERABLE POPULATIONS, UH, THE AMOUNT AND, UH, DEBRIS AND TRASH, THE AMOUNT. 
          I MEAN, THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS THAT GO INTO DETERMINING WHICH ONES, UH, ARE GONNA BE PRIORITIZED BECAUSE WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF ENCAMPMENTS AND WE ALL CAN'T DO THEM AT ONCE. 
          AND SO UNFORTUNATELY, WE DO HAVE TO COME UP WITH SOME METHODICAL WAY OF DOING ONE ENCAMPMENT AFTER ANOTHER AND FIGURING OUT THAT WHAT THAT IS RIGHT NOW, FOR INSTANCE, WE'RE STILL ON A LOT OF LARGE ENCAMPMENTS. 
          UH, AND I THINK WHAT'S REALLY HELPFUL FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW IS THAT, UH, YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THE CITY DOING SOMETHING, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE CITY DOESN'T KNOW. 
          AND WHAT WE ARE DOING IN THE MEANTIME, THOUGH, SINCE WE CAN'T ENCLOSE, IS THAT THROUGH AN ITEM PASSED BY COUNCIL, I BELIEVE EVEN JUST TWO WEEKS AGO, THAT THE AREAS ARE GETTING CLEANED UP ON A REGULAR BASIS. 
          THE TRASH OF THE AREAS, WE'RE JUST, WE'RE NOT SOLVING THE ISSUE. 
          WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MITIGATE SOME OF THE IMPACT WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE HOUSING TO BECOME AVAILABLE AND TO DECOMMISSION, UH, THE LOCATIONS. 
          AND SO THEN WHEN AN ENCAMPMENT GETS DECOMMISSIONED, UM, A NOTICE GETS DISTRIBUTED BY THE HOMELESS, UH, BY HBDS HOMELESS OUTREACH TEAM. 
          UH, AFTER THAT NOTICE, UH, GETS DISTRIBUTED, UH, THEN WE HAVE SPECIALIZED HOMELESS, UM, ENCAMPMENT OUTREACH TEAMS THROUGH THE COALITION AND THROUGH SEARCH. 
          UH, AND IT'S BEING EXPANDED AS WELL TO OTHER AGENCIES THAT THEN GO ON SITE. 
          A LOT OF WORK HAS TO BE DONE. 
          A TON OF WORK HAS TO BE DONE. 
          FEDERAL FUNDS ARE BEING USED FOR ALL OF THIS. 
          AND SO THEY GET ASSESSED FOR HOUSING, PAPERWORK GETS PULLED TOGETHER, THEY GET REFERRED TO HOUSING. 
          UM, ONCE A REFERRAL HAPPENS, THEN THEY ALL GET MOVED UTILIZING OUTREACH VEHICLES OR EVEN METRO HELPS OUT ASSIST PROVIDING, UH, TRANSPORTATION. 
          AND THEN THOSE INDIVIDUALS GET ALL TRANSPORTED AS A COMMUNITY TO EITHER DIRECTLY INTO THE HOUSING OR TO A NAVIGATION CENTER. 
          UM, AND THEN BY THE DATE AND TIME THAT THE NOTICES HAD FOR THE ACTUAL DECOMMISSIONING ENCLOSURE, THEN CLEANUP CREWS COME IN THERE, THEREAFTERWARDS CLEAN AND SANITIZE THE AREA AND SECURE THE AREA. 
          IN SOME CASES, FENCING MIGHT BE UTILIZED BY TXDOT, BUT MOST CASES FENCING IS NOT AN OPTION. 
          AND THEN IT TURNS AS, UH, COUNCILWOMAN CISNEROS WAS TALKING TO A RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENFORCEMENT TO THERE AND KEEP THE AREA CLEAR. 
          I WILL SAY THIS, IT IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW TO BE HOMELESS, OKAY? IT'S NOT AGAINST THE LAW IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO GO TO BE ON THE STREETS. 
          WHAT IS AGAINST THE LAW IS HAVING A STRUCTURE AND HAVING TOO MANY PERSONAL ITEMS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 
          OKAY? SO WHAT WE'RE GOING AFTER IS THE STRUCTURES AND CAMPSITES, NOT JUST SO IF, IF, IF SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, COMES AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S, THE CONSTITUTION COMES IN AND, AND IT'S FINE FOR SOMEBODY EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS TO BE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY. 
          UH, BUT ONCE 
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AGAIN, UH, GOING TO SO FAR IS TO ACCUMULATE ALL THE PROPERTY AND THE PER AND THE STRUCTURES. 
          THAT'S WHEN IT, THAT'S WHEN IT TURNS INTO A LEGAL ISSUE. 
          OUR GOAL HERE IS NOT TO GET FOLKS ARRESTED. 
          WE HAVE DIVERSION FACILITIES WE USE, UH, ONE IS OUR HOMELESS WELLNESS AND HOUSING CENTER OPERATED, UH, BY HARRIS HEALTH, UH, EXCUSE ME, THE HARRIS CENTER. 
          AND WHEN WE HAVE THE SOBERING CENTER, AS WELL AS OUR TWO DIVERSION FACILITIES AT THOSE FACILITIES, PEOPLE ARE GETTING ASSESSED FOR HOUSING. 
          SO EVEN IF SOMEBODY SAYS, NO, I DON'T WANT IT INTERESTED, AND THEN, AND THEN ALL THIS WORK HAPPENS, AND THEY'RE STILL NOT LISTENING, AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER TOOL TO USE IS ENFORCEMENT, WE CAN STILL DIVERT THEM AWAY FROM GETTING A CRIMINAL RECORD, WHICH ONLY MAKES IT HARDER FOR US TO HOUSE THEM. 
          AND WE CAN GET THEM NOW DIVERSION FACILITY WHERE WE CAN ONCE AGAIN ASSESS THEM FOR HOUSING AND TRY TO GET THEM HOUSED. 
          SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, FOLKS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO LET US KNOW. 
          UH, BUT THERE ARE A HUNDREDS OF ENCAMPMENTS. 
          IT DOES TAKE A LOT OF WORK. 
          THE PUBLIC MIGHT SEE AN ENCAMPMENT GONE IN A MATTER OF THREE, FOUR, OR FIVE DAYS. 
          BUT THE REALITY IS, IS IT TAKES FOUR WEEKS, TWO TO FOUR WEEKS OF PRE-WORK DONE BY THOSE OUTREACH TEAMS TO GET ALL THE PAPERWORK TOGETHER AND DO ALL THE ASSESSING AND TO DO ALL THE OUTREACH. 
          SO EACH ENCAMPMENT USES UP A TON OF RESOURCES. 
          IT'S NOT UNCOMMON FOR A DECOMMISSION OF ONE ENCAMPMENT TO UTILIZE 14 DIFFERENT AGENCIES. 
          UH, IT'S A MONUMENTAL TASK, BUT TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY AND TO DO IT THE WAY THAT WE'RE NOT HAVING TO COME BACK TO THE AREA AND DO IT AGAIN, THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHTY. 
          UM, SO, SO HERE'S THE ISSUE. 
          EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING IS PREDICATED ON ONE THING AND AS HOUSING PEOPLE. 
          SO WE HAVE THESE FUNDS. 
          I WENT OVER THOSE CHIP, UH, PHASE $2 I TALKED ABOUT, AND LET ME GIVE A HEADS UP TO THIS COMMITTEE, UH, THAT PART OF THAT PHASE TWO PROGRAM, THERE WILL BE LOTS OF ITEMS THAT THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT WILL BE BRINGING TO YOU. 
          SEVERAL OF THOSE ITEMS WERE BROUGHT TODAY, AND THERE WILL BE MORE ITEMS COMING UP. 
          IT FEELS LIKE A TON OF MONEY. 
          IT'S REALLY NOT. 
          IT'S A LOT OF ITEMS. UH, SO IT FEELS LIKE A LOT OF MONEY, BUT ONCE AGAIN, BY THE CITY INVESTING $30 MILLION INTO CHIP OVER THREE YEARS, IT'S $10 MILLION A YEAR. 
          AUSTIN PUTS IN 60 MILLION OF THEIR GENERAL FUND MONEY INTO HOMELESSNESS, UH, AND A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS OF ARPA. 
          AND TRAVIS COUNTY'S PUTTING IN A HUNDRED MILLION. 
          UH, WELL THAT'S WITH ARPA, 60 MILLION EVERY YEAR OF GENERAL FUND. 
          DALLAS IS PUTTING IN OVER A HUNDRED MILLION RIGHT NOW. 
          SO I, WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE ANY FUNDING WE WANT. 
          WE CAN GET, AND I KNOW THE MAYOR WOULD LOVE TO DO, PUT MORE FUNDING IF WE HAD IT, BUT WE DON'T. 
          BUT THE LITTLE MONEY THAT WE'RE COUGHING UP IS VERY, VERY VITAL. 
          UH, IT CAN SEEM LIKE A LOT JUST BECAUSE IT'S COMING IN, IN A MULTIPLE, UH, SMALLER CONTRACTS. 
          UM, SO HOUSING UNITS TO HOUSE SOMEBODY, IT TAKES THREE THINGS. 
          SO RENTAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND HOUSING UNITS. 
          YOU GOTTA PAY THE RENT, YOU GOTTA PAY THE SERVICES, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE PHYSICAL UNIT TO PUT THE PERSON IN. 
          OKAY? THESE THREE THINGS, THAT'S THE MAGIC IS LITERALLY A GAME OF WHACK-A-MOLE. 
          FOUR YEARS AGO, I WAS TALKING HERE AND I SAID, LOOK, WE HAVE UNITS AND WE HAVE WAYS TO PAY THE, UH, SERVICES, BUT WE HAVE NO, WE HAVE NO WAY TO PAY RENTAL ASSISTANCE. 
          AND THAT IT'S A GAME OF WHACK-A-MOLE. 
          RIGHT? NOW, THE MOLD WHACK IS THE HOUSING UNITS. 
          WE HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY THE RENT BECAUSE OF CHIP. 
          WE HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR THE SUPPORTIVE SERVICES. 
          BUT WHAT WE DON'T HAVE IS WE DON'T HAVE THE UNITS. 
          THAT IS LARGELY THE REASON WHY OUR PERMANENT HOUSING NUMBERS ARE DOWN 70%. 
          AND IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE. 
          I WILL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, THE COALITION IS SPENDING ALL THEIR TIME HOUSING PEOPLE WHO REHOUSING FOLKS WHO, UM, ARE, WERE ALREADY HOUSED. 
          THE LANDLORDS ARE NOT EXTENDING THEIR, UH, THEIR LEASES. 
          THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO FIND ANY UNITS FOR NEW FOLKS RIGHT NOW THAT, SO, SO I'M JUST SAYING ANOTHER WAY. 
          'CAUSE THEY'RE MARKET BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING, THEY'RE PUTTING THE UNIT TO MARKET. 
          SO, YES. 
          SO I'M GONNA SAY THIS ANOTHER WAY. 
          WE ARE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO HOUSE MORE HOMELESS PEOPLE, REDUCE HOMELESSNESS FURTHER, OR DECOMMISSION ENCAMPMENTS WITHOUT UNITS. 
          AND I'M NOT ONE TO NEEDLESSLY, I'M NOT A BOY THAT CRIES WOLF. 
          I AM NOT NEEDLESSLY WAVING A RED FLAG. 
          THIS IS REAL. 
          WE'VE SEEN THIS PERCOLATING FOR THE PAST YEAR, AND NOW IT'S COME TO ROOST. 
          UH, SO THIS IS A UNIQUE SITUATION HERE. 
          WE HAVE A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS TO HOUSE 7,000 NEW CLIENTS, AND WE GOTTA DO IT IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS. 
          AND AT THE SAME TIME, WE HAVE 400 CURRENTLY HOUSED CLIENTS WHO ARE AT RISK OF LOSING THEIR UNITS. 
          THAT IS THE PERFECT STORM WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW. 
          AND SO HERE'S THAT DECREASE I WAS TALKING ABOUT. 
          THIS IS JUST GOING MARCH OF THAT 70% DECREASE. 
          AND WE HAVE, WE'RE TRYING EVERYTHING WE CAN. 
          WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A WHILE. 
          WHAT CAN WE DO TO FIND NEW UNITS? THE COALITION FUNDED THROUGH THE CITY, AND THE COUNTY HAS A LANDLORD ENGAGEMENT TEAM. 
          THAT TEAM IS KNOCKING ON DOORS. 
          IT'S COLD CALLING PLACES. 
          IT'S FINDING RELATIONSHIPS TO TRY TO FIND NEW APARTMENT OWNERS, NEW MANAGEMENT COMPANIES, NEW LANDLORDS TO PROVIDE UNITS. 
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HOW DO WE GET CURRENT LANDLORDS THAT ARE ALREADY PARTICIPATING TO PARTICIPATE EVEN MORE? HOW DO WE DEAL WITH LANDLORDS WHO ARE ABOUT TO, TO BASICALLY KICK OUT FORMALLY HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS BACK ON THE STREETS? HOW DO WE GET THEM NOT TO DO THAT? HERE? WE'RE TRYING EVERYTHING. 
          UH, WE'RE THROWING WET SPAGHETTI AGAINST THE WALL AND SEEING WHAT STICKS. 
          WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW IS WHAT WE CALL RAPID DEVELOPMENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING. 
          OKAY? HERE'S THE ISSUE. 
          EVEN IF THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT SAYS X, WE'RE GONNA FUND YOU AN X NUMBER OF UNITS OF YOUR AFFORDABLE UNITS NEEDS TO BE FOR FOLKS OUT OF OUR HOUSING, OUT OF OUR HOMELESS SYSTEM, THAT LANDLORD STILL HAS THE ABILITY TO DECIDE WHO THEY ACCEPT AND WHO THEY DON'T WANNA ACCEPT. 
          AND SO THE REALITY IS, ALL THOSE FOLKS ON THE STREETS, THEY GOT CHALLENGING BACKGROUNDS, DENY, DENY, DENY. 
          AND NOW WE'RE STILL THERE. 
          OKAY? WE CAN'T HOUSE ANYBODY. 
          SO WE NEED TO CONTROL OUR OWN UNITS, UNITS THAT ARE LOW BARRIER THAT WE CAN GET PEOPLE HOUSED IN. 
          SO HOW DO WE DO THAT? WELL, TRADITIONALLY, ONE WAY OF DOING IT, WHICH OUR HOUSING DEPARTMENT DOES SO WELL, IS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, FUN FROM THE GROUND UP. 
          ALL THOSE PICTURES THAT DIRECTOR BYNUM SHOWED. 
          BUT THE REALITY IS, IS WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY NOR TIME TO DO THIS. 
          WE DON'T WANNA WAIT THREE YEARS. 
          ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT IS GO TO THE OPEN MARKET. 
          OKAY, LET'S, LET'S GO. 
          BUT ONCE AGAIN, THE OPEN MARKET, THE MULTIFAMILY APARTMENT IS ON FIRE RIGHT NOW. 
          NOBODY WANTS TO RENT, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THEY WERE HAPPY TO TAKE OUR VOUCHERS TO PAY FOR RENT. 
          NOW THEY DON'T WANT IT. 
          THEY DON'T NEED IT. 
          THEY DON'T HAVE TO. 
          AND SO TYPICALLY, THIS IS WHAT WE DID. 
          THIS IS OUR BREAD AND BUTTER. 
          THIS IS WHAT WE DID THAT MOST OF THESE WEREN'T ABLE TO DO, BUT WE DON'T HAVE THIS CARD TO PLAY ANYMORE. 
          BUT ANOTHER THING IS, IS, OH, AND ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY IS TO GO BUY. 
          DO I HAVE IT? NO. 
          ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY IS TO GO BUY APARTMENT COMPLEXES ALREADY BUILT. 
          BUT ONCE AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S GANGBUSTERS. 
          WE CAN'T COMPETE WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO DO THAT. 
          SO ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY IS THESE MOTELS. 
          SO MOTELS, UH, THEY'RE RELATIVELY DECENT BUYS. 
          UH, WE DON'T WANNA OPERATE A SHELTER, BUT ACTUALLY WE WANNA OPERATE AS HOUSING. 
          UH, A AN AMAZING ONE IS IF THEY HAVE ALL SUITES. 
          AND SO THEY ALREADY HAVE KITCHENETTES AND ALL THE ROOMS, UM, THEY'RE, WE'RE DOING, UM, WE'VE SEEN THAT WHEN WE DO IT ON A SMALL SCOPE, UH, WE CAN REDUCE THE ISSUES, MAKE IT EVEN A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. 
          UH, KIND OF LIKE THE TEMPORARY NAVIGATION CENTER BEING OPERATED RIGHT NOW USING A MOTEL, BUT INSTEAD THAT'S TEMPORARY HOUSING. 
          THIS WOULD BE DOING PERMANENT. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS AS COMPARING THOSE OPTIONS TO GOING TO BUILDING BRAND NEW, TO ACQUIRING EXISTING APARTMENT COMPLEX OR TO USING MOTELS, YOU CAN SEE FINANCIALLY IT'S A GREAT BUY ALSO TIME TO BE OPERATIONAL. 
          IT'S ALSO HUGE. 
          SO THIS IS ONE THING THAT WE'RE EXPLORING RIGHT NOW WITH THE ADMINISTRATION AND WITH THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT. 
          UH, NOT NECESSARILY THAT THERE'S FUNDS AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW, BUT THIS IS, UH, I, I BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOU BUILD AND DESIGN THE PROJECT AND IT'S GOOD ENOUGH, THEN WE CAN ALL WORK TOGETHER TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT ON HOW WE FUND IT. 
          BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S ACTIVELY BEING EXPLORED THAT I WANNA PUT ON YOUR RADAR RIGHT NOW. 
          THE OTHER THING I WANNA MENTION, UH, TO YOU IS THE UNITS. 
          AND ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS I'LL BE EMAILING ALL THE COUNCIL OFFICES, ASKING THE COUNCIL, UH, UH, MEMBERS TO DIP INTO THE ROLODEX AND REALLY INTRODUCE US AND FORM RELATIONSHIPS. 
          UH, INTRODUCE US TO THE FORMED RELATIONSHIPS THAT YOU HAVE WITH LANDLORDS IN YOUR AREA. 
          WE ARE OUR NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED HOMELESS HOUSING SYSTEM HERE. 
          AND THAT'S THE IRONY. 
          JUST WHEN WE'RE RECEIVING THOSE ACCOLADES, THE FOLKS IN THE INSIDE KNOW HOW DELICATE OF A BALANCE IT IS, AND IT COULD ALL COME CRUMBLING DOWN IF WE DON'T FIND THESE ONE BEDROOM UNITS. 
          EVERYTHING IS ONCE AGAIN, ENCAMPMENTS AND REDUCING HOMELESSNESS AND KEEPING US AT THE TOP. 
          ALL HINGES ON UNITS. 
          AND, UH, AND I CAN'T SAY THAT ENOUGH. 
          UH, AND SO, UH, ANY INTRODUCTIONS YOU CAN MAKE, UH, WE'RE ASKING LANDLORDS TO BE PART OF THIS EXCITING, UM, UH, FLAGSHIP, UM, INITIATIVE OF OUR REGION THAT IS GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED. 
          AND, UH, AND WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR A TON OF UNITS. 
          WHATEVER UNITS THEY CAN PROVIDE, WE'LL PAY FOR THOSE UNITS. 
          WE'LL GIVE INCENTIVES FOR THOSE UNITS. 
          WE'LL, WE'LL LAY OUT THE RED CARPET, BUT ALL WE'RE, ALL WE NEED IS FOR THEM TO BE WILLING TO LEASE TO OUR CLIENTS. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          UM, SO THANK YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU GUYS. 
          UH, NO THANK YOU. 
          THIS IS, UM, PROBABLY ONE OF THE BETTER PRESENTATIONS IN UN HAVING HEARING IN TERMS OF UPDATE OF HOMELESSNESS AND WHAT'S HAPPENING THROUGHOUT OUR REGION AND PARTICULARLY IN OUR CITY. 
          IT'S DEFINITELY ROBUST AND A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT I KNOW I'LL HAVE TO SIT WITH AND PROCESS AND THEN COME BACK TO YOU WITH WAYS THAT I KNOW IN ADDITION TO THE, THE ASK THAT YOU HAVE FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS OF HOW WE CAN 
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SHARE THIS TYPE OF INFORMATION IN COMMUNITY. 
          'CAUSE YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 
          WE DO HAVE, UM, A VICE CHAIR, UH, FOR LAST COMMENTS IN THE QUEUE. 
          THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          AND, AND JUST TO QUICKLY MARK ON THE FINAL POINT THAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING WITH THE HOTELS THAT WE'RE BUYING AND THE MAP THAT YOU SHOWED, IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE A BUCKSHOT AROUND THE CENTER OF THE CITY WITH KIND OF AN EVEN SPREAD FOR, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE ARE HOUSING FOLKS. 
          BUT AS WE GO OUT, AND CERTAINLY THE DISTRICT COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN HELP AND RECOGNIZE WHERE THE TROUBLE SPOTS ARE THROUGHOUT THE CITY, BUT I JUST CURIOUS IF YOU NEED TO HAVE SORT OF COMPREHENSIVE COVERAGE FOR THE HOTELS OR THE PLACES THAT WE REHOUSE OR WHETHER YOU CAN FIND THEM ANYWHERE AND BRING THE HOMELESS POPULATION TO THEM, TO THOSE PLACES OR HOW THAT SPREAD, UH, REALLY, UM, PROVIDES A CHALLENGE FOR US. 
          DO WE NEED MORE FACILITIES IN CERTAIN PARTS OF TOWN? I THINK THAT MAY, MAY BE WHAT I'M GETTING AT. 
          YEAH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE BECKER'S CAN'T BE CHOOSERS IN AN IDEAL WORLD, IT HAS TO BE CLOSE TO PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. 
          WE'D LIKE IT TO BE CLOSE TO WHERE ALL THE, WHERE THEY CAN RECEIVE SERVICES AS WELL, AS WELL AS OTHER AMENITIES SUCH AS A GROCERY STORE OR EVEN EVEN A GAS STATION. 
          UM, BUT THE REALITY IS, IS THAT, UM, UH, WE, WE WILL TAKE WHAT WE CAN GET RIGHT NOW, UM, AND WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL OF THE MOTEL PROGRAM, UH, WE LOOKING AT THEY, YOU KNOW, UM, AT PLACES TO WHERE, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AROUND OUR STUFF, LOOK, WE CAN, WE CAN BUILD A TINY HOME COMMUNITY OUT IN THE BOONDOCKS AND WE CAN PROBABLY FIND SOME PEOPLE GO OUT THERE. 
          THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE THE PEOPLE THAT WE REALLY WANT TO TARGET. 
          AND IF THEY'RE SO FAR OUT, THEY CAN'T GET THEIR SERVICES, WHAT GOOD IS IT? 'CAUSE IT'S THE HOUSING AND THE SERVICES, WHICH IS THE REALLY IMPORTANT COMPONENT. 
          BUT ONCE AGAIN, THE COALITION HAS AN AMAZING TEAM. 
          INTRODUCTIONS ARE MADE. 
          THE COALITION AND MYSELF WILL GO OUT AND DO THE SALES PITCH. 
          BUT WHAT WE FOUND IS WITHOUT A HARD WARM ASK FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS SUCH AS YOURSELVES, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT SUCCESSFUL, UH, WITH THE LANDLORDS. 
          AND SO WE REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH EVERYBODY. 
          WE DEFINITELY CAN DO THAT. 
          I HAVE NO ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS IN THE QUEUE, BUT WE DO HAVE ONE PUBLIC SPEAKER SIGNED UP IN THE QUEUE TODAY. 
          MR. MARCUS BEIS, STAR SIX, IF YOU ARE ONLINE, MR. MARCUS BEIS. 
          MR. MARCUS BEIS. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          I DON'T HEAR OR SEE HIM. 
          UH, IF YOU ARE WATCHING ON HTV OR FACEBOOK, PLEASE EMAIL OUR OFFICE AT DISTRICT F AT HOUSTON TX GOV AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET YOU SOME INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR, UM, HOUSING QUESTION. 
          IT IS OFFICIALLY 1135 AND I WANNA TURN IT OVER TO MY VICE CHAIR FOR CLOSING COMMENTS. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, AND THANK, WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR JOINING US TODAY. 
          IT HAS REALLY BEEN AN EXCELLENT UPDATE FROM THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS MR. ACHENBACH LAST PRESENTATION. 
          WANNA THANK EVERYONE AGAIN? AND WITH THAT MADAM CHAIR, WE ARE ADJOURNED. 
          AND JOIN US ON AUGUST 19TH. 
          SAME, SAME CHANNEL. 
          WHAT IS IT? SAME BAT LINE, SAME BAT CHANNEL. 
          YEAH, ALL OF THAT, ALL THAT. 
          WE'LL SEE Y'ALL HERE ON AUGUST 19TH. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH.
* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.